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Today, I tried to install packages through apt-get, but I encountered a lot of 404 errors. My sources.list was fully working last Friday (no changes to my knowledge), now I get:

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found [IP: 130.230.54.99 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/source/Sources  404 Not Found [IP: 130.230.54.99 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/lenny/updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.32 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/lenny/updates/main/source/Sources  404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.32 80]

When I browse for example http://security.debian.org/dists/ there seems to be no lenny directory. What's the issue?

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  • Ok, it seems that lenny is moved to archieve. No suprise as it's passed already EOF: wiki.debian.org/DebianLenny
    – Fdr
    Mar 26, 2012 at 7:42
  • Noticed the same just lately a and decided to move on. Will take me a night or so, but still better this way. The machine should have been better maintained in the first place :)
    – 0xC0000022L
    May 10, 2012 at 13:35

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Since

  • Lenny is EOLed
  • lenny security updates have been terminated on February 6th
  • lenny backports have been dicontinued on March 25th
  • lenny volatile has been discontinued with the release of its successor "squeeze"

the repositories have been moved to archive.debian.org - you may wish to update your repositories to match this:

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
# Volatile:
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
# Backports:
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports main contrib non-free
# Previously announced security updates:
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security lenny/updates main
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  • You saved my life and sanity with that answer. Thanks a lot!
    – Bartek Banachewicz
    Jan 6, 2013 at 11:42
  • i've got W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org lenny/volatile Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY DFD993306D849617
    – holms
    Feb 1, 2013 at 6:29
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I think you want to 

gpg  --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net  --recv-keys DFD993306D849617

to avoid the "NO_PUBKEY" error.

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The other answers didn't work for me - this worked:

mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.PREARCHIVE

From http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=95658, make new /etc/apt/sources.list with

# SOURCE: http://superuser.com/questions/404806/did-debian-lenny-repositories-vanish
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports main
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports-sloppy main

Then

gpg  --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net  --recv-keys DFD993306D849617
apt-get update
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  • gpg needs some funny port number to request keys. How annoying. Why don't the use port 80.
    – Kaz
    Oct 28, 2013 at 19:57
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For people who like me are searching for a place to download individual packages for the Debian 5 Lenny the best option as of now is archive.debian.net

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