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I'm using a docker image as a base for my own development that adds the jessie backports repository in its Dockerfile and uses that to install a dependency. This image uses the following command to add the repository:

echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

The problem is that fetching packages from the backports repository now fails with the following error (this used to work previously):

W: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-backports/main/binary-amd64/Packages
404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch
http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages
 404  Not Found

I looked on that server, and those paths are indeed not present there.

I tried to figure out on the Debian backports site whether this particular repository should still be available, and I didn't find any indication that this was deprecated or something like that.

Is this a temporary issue with the repository, or is the jessie-backports repository not available anymore? And if this is not a temporary issue, what options do I have to use this or an equivalent repository without upgrading to the newer Debian stable version?

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Wheezy and Jessie were recently removed from the mirror network, so if you want to continue fetching Jessie backports, you need to use archive.debian.org instead:

deb [check-valid-until=no] http://archive.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

(Validity checks need to be disabled since the repository is no longer being updated. Jessie’s apt doesn’t support the check-valid-until flag, see inostia’s answer for details, and the configuration summary further down in this answer.)

The jessie-updates repository has been removed: all the updates have been merged with the main repository, and there will be no further non-security updates. So any references to jessie-updates in sources.list or sources.list.d files need to be removed. Security updates will continue to be provided, on LTS-supported architectures, in the security repository, until June 30, 2020.

Since you’re building a container image, I highly recommend basing it on Debian 9 (Stretch) instead. To stay on Debian 8 (Jessie), your repositories should end up looking like

deb http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
deb-src http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie main

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

(without the jessie-updates repository).

You’ll also need to disable validity checks in /etc/apt/apt.conf (which will apply to all repositories):

Acquire::Check-Valid-Until "false";
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    Sorry, my answer was perhaps not all that clear; the line I gave was only for backports. jessie-updates doesn’t exist any more, so you should delete that altogether, and the Jessie security updates are still on security.debian.org.
    – Stephen Kitt
    Mar 26, 2019 at 15:15
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    @Ian no, security updates are provided on security.debian.org, not through backports or updates. There won’t be any more non-LTS stable updates, so jessie-updates is no longer useful on the main mirror network, and there won’t be any more backports either, so the same goes for jessie-backports.
    – Stephen Kitt
    Mar 26, 2019 at 15:57
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    Not working for me: ``` E: Release file for archive.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-backports/InRelease is expired (invalid since 34d 20h 7min 12s). Updates for this repository will not be applied. ```
    – Avi Kivity
    Mar 26, 2019 at 16:34
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    Have found that subsequent apt commands also seem to require -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false (per unix.stackexchange.com/a/45973/186565) in order to avoid the expiration error.
    – sumitsu
    Mar 26, 2019 at 21:01
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    @sumitsu thanks, setting that in apt.conf should work too (see my update).
    – Stephen Kitt
    Mar 26, 2019 at 22:39
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After trying solutions suggested by @inostia and @Stephen Kitt I was still getting the following error:

W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I figured out that it can be solved by removing the line deb http://deb.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main from /etc/apt/sources.list.

I ended up with the following snippet in my Dockerfile:

RUN echo "deb [check-valid-until=no] http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian jessie main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie.list
RUN echo "deb [check-valid-until=no] http://archive.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie-backports.list
RUN sed -i '/deb http:\/\/deb.debian.org\/debian jessie-updates main/d' /etc/apt/sources.list
RUN apt-get -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false update
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    I had to teak sed part as In my case docker image (postgres) was using httpredir.debian.org instead of deb.debian.org.
    – harrybvp
    Mar 27, 2019 at 22:19
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    Here is an updated version of your sed command that did the trick for me: sed -i '/deb http:\/\/\(deb\|httpredir\).debian.org\/debian jessie.* main/d' /etc/apt/sources.list
    – speedplane
    Mar 29, 2019 at 0:26
  • Is there any no-spike solution? If repository is deprecated what is the new repository where to get necessary extensions?
    – zhartaunik
    Mar 30, 2019 at 5:29
  • here is the final wersion which works for me: RUN echo "deb [check-valid-until=no] cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian jessie main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie.list RUN echo "deb [check-valid-until=no] archive.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie-backports.list RUN sed -i '/deb http:\/\/(deb\|httpredir).debian.org\/debian jessie.* main/d' /etc/apt/sources.list RUN apt-get -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false update RUN echo 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until "false";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf
    – Yehor
    Apr 12, 2019 at 14:04
  • this worked for me and any subsequent apt-get update should have the -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false option. In my case i was installing couchbase using RUN dpkg -i couchbase-release-1.0-4-amd64.deb and then RUN apt-get -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false update && \ apt-get -y install libcouchbase-dev && \ rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
    – Raveen Beemsingh
    Apr 19, 2019 at 8:18
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For those using NodeJS with older docker image foundations. I had some frozen images that had these older sources for the compilation of extra libs.

Context: if you wanted to install python during a docker build you ran into this issue during a build of the image (within the last 24 hours) as it failed to source dependencies during a docker build.

I tried the archive path recommendations in this post but couldn't get past the 404's. (also coming from the archive.debian.org location as of today)

Solution: I ended up switching to the latest container version of node (which has python libs already pre-installed) that, and updating some libs in the package json (which now also include binary libs that used to want pythyon) made the issue obsolete.

In the end, updating the foundation image for the container stack (node:latest) seemed to be the most straight-forward path to resolution.

Be wary of stale image stacks with binary dependencies included, they'll probably take a while to update the core OS layer.

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  • Hi Glen, thanks for posting. I think I'm running into same issue in dockerfile as I have "RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install supervisor python python-dev curl -y --force-yes". I'm using FROM node:6.11.2, what must I do to get past this?
    – Aaron
    Apr 2, 2019 at 9:07
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    For Docker Node images, an alternative is to use the -stretch images: node:<version>-stretch
    – lukeaus
    Apr 9, 2019 at 5:15
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If nothing works anymore, with a panel of those errors:

Unable to correct missing packages.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
W: GPG error
W: An error occurred during the signature verification.
Updates for this repository will not be applied.
E: Failed to fetch
E: Aborting install

Consider a full distribution upgrade and a source list clean up to save your machine. It will takes only minutes with those notes, but it's worst it.

First visit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, and remove everything. (Do backups).

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list, leave only this line:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib

Then, as root, run:

aptitude update
aptitude full-upgrade

Confirm the various messages. Then try: 

sudo apt update

Should raise no errors, just confirming:

Reading package lists... Done

Some various packages can raise some conflicts, on those cases, to be used one time, this will resolve the various conflicts:

sudo aptitude -y install packagename otherpackagename

Possible other error: 

W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
*648ACFXXXXX2FAB138*

To solve, import the public keys as specified:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 648ACFXXXXX2FAB138

You might hit a very rare message!

A reboot is required to replace the running dbus-daemon.
Please reboot the system when convenient.

You might hit an issue with olds kernels and libc:

Kernel must be upgraded

This version of the GNU libc requires kernel version 3.2 or later.  Please upgrade your kernel

Do not apply those notes for public servers. Always go for the last LTS.

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-uptodate.en.html

https://askubuntu.com/questions/364404/e-unable-to-fetch-some-archives-maybe-run-apt-get-update-or-try-with-fix-mis

https://askubuntu.com/questions/766883/there-is-no-public-key-available-for-the-following-key-ids-1397bc53640db551

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