Tag: Etch

Debian backports and pinning I’m running Debian Etch because I prefer the stable Debian package tree. This is all great but the software is a little outdated compared to other distributions like Ubuntu....
Mounting remote filesystems using SSH and Debian This post describes how to mount a remote filesystem through SSH using the shfs kernel module on a Debian Etch server. By doing this I can access the remote filesystem as if...
apt-show-versions apt-show-versions is a Debian tool that lists available package versions with distributions. This is really useful if you have a mixed stable/testing environment and want to...
Upgrade from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny To upgrade a Debian Etch (stable) installation to testing Debian Lenny (unstable), you can do the following steps Edit sources.list sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list change all...