DebianSqueeze

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Squeeze was the development codename for Debian 6.0.

Squeeze was the oldstable distribution until the end of May 2014. Squeeze received Long Term Support until 2016-02-29. Now it is archived, and no longer receives security updates.

Security updates are no longer provided for this release.

Contents

Debian/Squeeze Life cycle
1. Before the release
2. Release and updates
Architectures
New Features
1. Packages & versions
FAQ
1. Links
2. See also

Debian/Squeeze Life cycle

Before the release

2008-09-01 : Distribution codename announced
2009-07-29 : Debian want to adopt time-based release freezes, see announcement
2009-10-18 : Development freeze should be in March 2010, see announcement.
2010-02-08 : The release team announced that a freeze in March is highly unlikely, see announcement
2010-08-06 : freeze of Debian testing, see announcement
2011-01-13 : Announcement of Debian Installer 6.0 Release Candidate 1 published (press release).

Release and updates

2011-02-06 : Initial release : 6.0.0 (press release).
2011-03-19 : Updated (6.0.1) (press release).
2011-06-25 : Updated (6.0.2) (press release).
2011-10-08 : Updated (6.0.3) (press release).
2012-01-28 : Updated (6.0.4) (press release).
2012-05-12 : Updated (6.0.5) (press release).
2012-09-29 : Updated (6.0.6) (press release).
2013-02-23 : Updated (6.0.7) (press release).
2013-05-04 : Squeeze becomes old-stable. (i.e A new stable is released: Debian Wheezy)
2013-10-20 : Updated (6.0.8) (press release).
2014-02-15 : Updated (6.0.9) (press release).
2014-04-24 : Long-Term-Support announced (press release).
2014-05-31 : End of regular security updates (but Long-Term-Support for i386 and amd64 until February 2016). (Debian Security Advisory 2907-1)
2014-07-19 : Updated (6.0.10) (press release).
2016-02-29 : End of LTS security updates for i386 and amd64 (five years after initial release) (press release).

Architectures

Squeeze is officially supported on the following architectures : amd64, armel, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc.

technical previews: kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386 (see kFreeBSD))
Dropped architectures : hppa

New Features

see

Packages & versions

apt 0.8.10
kernel : linux 2.6.32
libc : eglibc 2.11
gcc : 4.4
X-server : Xorg R7.5
Gnome 2.30, KDE 4.4.5, Xfce 4.6

FAQ

Q) Which 'Toy Story'' is Squeeze ?

It's the Three-eyed space alien (see Wikipedia page, picture)

Q) Now that squeeze is archived, how do I get packages for it?

Use the following in your sources.list:

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian squeeze main
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian squeeze-lts main

The second line will fail with an "expired" type message, so you also need to add the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf (create it if it doesn't already exist):

```
Acquire::Check-Valid-Until false;
```