Is Debian Dying?

[carlarogers]

I have installed debian on my computer ten times, but it has been a few years since I last did it.

Today, near the end of installing Debian 12, the installation process threw up a red screen saying my mirror proxy was no good. I never had the problem before. I tried searching the
internet for information but found nothing.

What the heck is this? Why have I never seen this before?

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nevermind, I got by that
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But now, I have a new debian 12 server setup.. it cannot run apt-get update. It being unable to read deb.debian.org

What is wrong? How do I fix this? Is debian dying?

 

[carlarogers]

Another thing. Every computer on my network is at 192.168.1.*. Except the new Debian Vm It is at 172.16.146.129. How did that hppen and how do it fix that?

 

[carlarogers]

I shutdown and restarted the vm, now it networking more normal

 

[Brickwizard]

APT [advanced package manager for Debian] when introduced, the main commands were Apt-get-?????? or apt-cache-????
This started changing with APT revisions back in 2015, although many commands still need apt-get, many more no longe use get
so what was sudo apt-get update is now just sudo apt update, [I still get caught between those that do and those that don't]
cant help with mirror, it may be down, it does happen quite often

 

[craigevil]

repos might appear as down when they are updating, it happens.

 

[dobeshow]

Another thing. Every computer on my network is at 192.168.1.*. Except the new Debian Vm It is at 172.16.146.129. How did that hppen and how do it fix that?
View attachment 16929

If you're using virtual box, you need to set up a network bridge to the real network card...

 

[kc1di]

Debian is not dieing I would suggest that the mirror you are using went down for some reason. Try a different mirror.

 

[dos2unix]

Does Debian have dynamic repo mirroring?

Most of the distro's I use in this day and age simply point to a mirror list
and use one of those dynamically. If one site is down, it automatically tries
the next one. You can over-ride this and point to a specific mirror, but if
I select "use closest mirror", it will still move to another if that site is down.

 

[kc1di]

For a good page on the differences between apt and apt-get see here.

https://www.howtogeek.com/791055/apt-vs-apt-get-whats-the-difference-on-linux/