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Using Debian squeeze (6.0) LTS
You can use LTS in adding the repository to your sources.list and updating your system. Not all packages get security updates. Make sure all your installed packages get updates.
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Add squeeze-lts to your sources.list
Important: Squeeze-LTS will only support i386 and amd64. Users of other architectures are encouraged to upgrade to Debian 7 ("wheezy").
for binary and source packages add these lines:
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze-lts main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze-lts main contrib non-free
You need squeeze, squeeze security and squeeze lts for LTS working properly:
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze-lts main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze-lts main contrib non-free
You can add other repositories like proposed-updates, Backports or deb-multimedia.
If you want more info on which mirrors to use, read debian mirrors.
Check apt.conf for legacy release pinning
If /etc/apt/apt.conf contains something like this:
APT::Default-Release "squeeze";
then you must either comment it out, or replace it with:
APT::Default-Release "squeeze-lts";
Otherwise, you risk not getting LTS updates on your system.
Update and upgrade
Run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to update and upgrade your system
Check for unsupported packages
As announced, not all packages of the Debian archive is supported by Squeeze-LTS. To check whether you have unsupported packages installed on your machine, please install the debian-security-support package (use the version in squeeze-lts, unstable will not work as expected). A check for new unsupported packages is run every time packages are installed. You can also run the 'check-support-status' utility manually to get a list of all unsupported packages installed on your system.
What can I do if security support for a package has ended?
You can choose between different options:
- Remove the unmaintained package.
Install the software from Backports. You can get updates by the backports repository (see also http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/).
- Keep the software and make sure, that neither already known nor new security issues affect your system.
If you want to provide patches subscribe to LTS/Contact#debian-lts and present your idea.