Not sure what sources to use anymore

[daisy__]

Hi- I intalled Debian on my current machine about 2 years ago. At that time, I think that I installed Sarge, but upgraded to a 2.6 kernel. At any rate, the debian_version file reads "Debian 3.1" and uname informs me that I'm running the 2.6.10 kernel.

I had the unstable repositories listed in my apt.sources file until very recently, and everything installed just fine. In September, I was suddenly unable to install ANY packages from apt and apt-update didn't work anymore. I assumed that this was due to 3.1 being released as the stable version, so I changed all the repositories listed in apt.sources to stable. I am still unable to install anything, and I can't upgrade either.

This is probably a pretty common problem, but I wasn't able to find any mention of it while searching. Could somebody please point me in the direction of the proper repositories for my system? (I should point out that I'm pretty happy with it the way it is, so I don't want to upgrade.)

[antidrugue]

Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list file, as well as any errors you get when using apt-get to upgrade (or simply the content of /var/log/dpkg.log) ?

[daisy__]

my sources.list file reads something like:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free


I also have the debian.uchicago.edu mirror listed.

The error that I always get from apt-get is "no candidate for installation" or, if running apt-update, "some index files may have failed to download... try running apt-update"
Not terrible helpful.

[deanlinkous]

All you should need is this line
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
OR if you want to make sure you are pulling direct from debian
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

After that do a apt-get update and you should be gtg.