Debian – Archive mirrors for old Debian

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I need to install old Debian 5 on my system in order to run some tests. The installation complains regarding bad archive mirror on network. How to solve that problem? Does it means that nobody mirrors the outdated distribution?

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At the configure the package manager step you should select (in top of the country mirror list):

enter information manually

Then select a debian mirror from here , for example:

archive.debian.org

Then the Debian mirror directory:

/debian/

You should ignore the next error saying :

security.debian.org couldn't be accessed

because there is no security updates for debian Lenny.

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There is. You need to install the package apt-transport-https. Then you can use lines like

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in your sources.list file. But usually that's not necessary, since the entire content is public anyway and it adds encryption overhead and latency. Since you don't trust an attackers public key, even http traffic is safe from MitM attacks. apt will warn you and fail to install the packages when an attacker injects manipulated packages.

EDIT: As mentioned in the comments it is indeed more secure to use the TLS repository. Research shows that using apt on unencrypted repositories can indeed pose a security risk as the HTTP transport is vulnerable to replay attacks.

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