forum.pistar.uk

Hi,

I have seen this in the forum without a resolution, I have three of these that are showing the same thing when I run updates.
What is the fix ?

When a sudo apt update / sudo apt dist-upgrade combo is launched at the command prompt several distro sources referred to do not exist:

Err http://httpredir.debian.org jessie-backports/main armhf Packages
404 Not Found
Err http://httpredir.debian.org jessie-backports/contrib armhf Packages
404 Not Found
Err http://httpredir.debian.org jessie-backports/non-free armhf Packages
404 Not Found

There is no fix, Jessie is slowly going out of use, I'm putting my time into prepping V4.1 currently, the solution will be to move to that release.

It appears that Backport was just a testing area and was removed.
the thing to do is

rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie-backports.list
apt-get update

all is well.

"backports" are software / updates released in a later version, and back-ported to (jessie in this case) - specifically I used the USBModeswitch from back ports at least.

Do you need any help working through upgrade to Debian 10 Buster or similar?