Apt-get :: Apt-get doesn't work properly

huh... Maybe dsl shouldn't advertise as "Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install" considering debian packages can break the system...:rock:

As time passes so does Debian...
Perhaps it should say Debian Woody to acknowledge time sensitivity.

I suppose you could break any traditional hard drive installation by forcing and/or loading foriegn packages. It is what I call system rot and is why I have little interest in traditional hard drive installed systems. Trying to support such is nearly impossible when you don't really know what has been done to the system. DSL's design goal is to easily be able to have a know pristine starting point.

One, you need to find a debian WOODY archive. Which is the Old "Old Stable".

Then you add it to the sources.lst file.

Then you can try installing stuff that most likely won't break it. That's how I enabled kernel-nfs-server in DSL 3.3r2

The default Debain repository used by the mydsl dsl-dpkg.dsl which is used/called by the enable apt menu item does already indeed point to Woody. No need to try to find it. When the woody archive was created it was discussed here in the forums and an announcement was made to indicate a new dsl-dpkg.dsl was created for that very purpose.

original here.