<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13317"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13401"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13353" class="qtdSeparateBR"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13488">I have now edited sources.list. Removing all of the lines commented out leaves the following. All of these lines were previously present, but have been edited.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13468"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13469"> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13558"> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13559"> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib non-free<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13560"> deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stable main non-free<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13561"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13656" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13655" dir="ltr">BTW, the top of the file has this line generated during the original install.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13664" dir="ltr"># deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Jessie_ - Official Snapshot amd64 lxde-CD Binary-1 20140728-06:13]/ testing main</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_15069" dir="ltr">If I read the release info correctly July of 2014, Jessie was "testing"</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_15087" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_15132" dir="ltr">If I use apt-get with the above info, I should hopefully be updating to "stretch". Or, if I change "stable" to "testing" I would get the current instantiation of buster.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_15190" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_15225" dir="ltr">I still want check the versions for a bunch of apps, just to see if I might be headed into a mine field. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_15227" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_15226" dir="ltr">Anything else before I jump off the cliff?<br></div><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13350" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13349" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13348" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13396" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13399" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13425" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> conspire@linuxmafia.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, June 21, 2018 3:58 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [conspire] How to update packages when Deb is behind?<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13347" class="y_msg_container"><br>Quoting Paul Zander (<a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13400" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org">paulz@ieee.org</a>):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Before I proceed, can you explain /etc/debian_version and<br clear="none">> /etc/issue. I expect those are the real cause of my situation.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I expect those are more _effect_ than cause.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529623556384_13424">I agree, based on the file date, /etc/debian_version seems to have been automatically created.</span></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>