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Doing apt-get update gets the following errors:

Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/contrib Translation-en_GB
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/non-free Translation-en_GB
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib Sources
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free Sources
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main amd64 Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib amd64 Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free amd64 Packages
Err http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:a78:5:1:216:35ff:fe7f:6ceb 80]
Err http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib Sources
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:a78:5:1:216:35ff:fe7f:6ceb 80]
Err http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free Sources
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:a78:5:1:216:35ff:fe7f:6ceb 80]
Err http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:a78:5:1:216:35ff:fe7f:6ceb 80]
Err http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:a78:5:1:216:35ff:fe7f:6ceb 80]
Err http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:a78:5:1:216:35ff:fe7f:6ceb 80]
25% [Connecting to ftp.de.debian.org (141.76.2.4)]^C
root@ks3309152:/# nano /etc/apt/sources.list
root@ks3309152:/# nano /etc/apt/sources.list.backup
root@ks3309152:/# nano /etc/apt/sources.list
root@ks3309152:/# apt-get update
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net squeeze Release.gpg
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net squeeze Release
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net squeeze/main Sources
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net squeeze/main amd64 Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main amd64 Packages
Err http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:a78:5:1:216:35ff:fe7f:6ceb 80]
Err http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:a78:5:1:216:35ff:fe7f:6ceb 80]
Err http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net squeeze/main Sources
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7 80]
Err http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net squeeze/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/dists/squeeze/main/source/Sources.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/dists/squeeze/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/main/source/Sources.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:a78:5:1:216:35ff:fe7f:6ceb 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:a78:5:1:216:35ff:fe7f:6ceb 80]

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

I realize I am 3 major versions away from the current, what do I need to do from here to upgrade to Debian Stretch properly based from the errors I get?

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  • @dsstorefile added more info
    – IMB
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 8:41
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    Comment out all the urls in sources.list that are unreachable.
    – n8te
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 9:18
  • @n8te well it appears the (2) only URLs are both unreachable
    – IMB
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 10:47

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I'd just jump straight to wheezy, but if you want to run updates for squeeze beforehand you can change your sources.list to point to archive.debian.org.

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security squeeze/updates main
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian squeeze main
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian squeeze-lts main
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian squeeze-proposed-updates main
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  • I did that and now I get: W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org squeeze/updates Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1520281423 W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1520281423 KEYEXPIRED 1501892461 E: Release file expired, ignoring http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze-lts/Release (invalid since 766d 20h 12min 50s)
    – IMB
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 10:49
  • Ok now when I try apt-get upgrade it says 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    – IMB
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 10:59
  • I tried again.. now this is what I get WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! base-files tzdata
    – IMB
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 11:00
  • It isn't but is it safe to skip it
    – IMB
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 11:04
  • that was before I commented out squeeze-lts main
    – IMB
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 11:06
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I think this way you can upgrade.

First upgrade Debian Squeeze To Wheezy.

How To Upgrade Debian Squeeze To Wheezy

Then upgrade Debian Wheezy to Jessie.

How to upgrade Debian Wheezy to Jessie safely

Finally upgrade Debian Jessie to 9 Stretch.

How to Upgrade Debian 8 (Jessie) to 9 (Stretch) safely

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    Sorry but I'm using command line only, no GUI
    – IMB
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 8:17
  • Try this command --> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
    – Eranda Peiris
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 8:24
  • I got this 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded
    – IMB
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 8:40
  • I would advise you to update from squeeze to wheezy first and then from wheezy to jessie finally jessie to Stretch.
    – Eranda Peiris
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 8:42
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    Well yeah but I get those errors in the description
    – IMB
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 8:50
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As others have said you need to go Squeeze -> Wheezy -> Jessie -> Stretch.

To solve your package signing issues I'd manually install the debian-keyring from the release you're upgrading too first (Downloadable via packages.debian.org). (dpkg -i debian-keyring_version.deb to install)

Then follow the instructions in the release notes for each release:

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  • Generally a good idea with the keyring, but contains ununderstood data member control.tar.xz, giving up ... the package format has changed (.xz support added).
    – 0xC0000022L
    Commented Aug 25, 2020 at 11:44

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