Install SNMP on Debian Squeeze

debian-squeezesnmpd

I know Debian Squeeze (v6.0) is EOL and LTS officially ended in Feb. However, i have a few squeeze server (cant be upgraded for now) and i must monitor those Via SNMP. My problem is that all squeeze mirrors were removed and i for the life of me cant find the snmp daemon. I tried using the Wheezy source list, but im getting errors about dependencies it needs but wont be installed (see below). I assume because i need to perform a glibc update, but i cant do that (and risk breaking its current apps) . Does anyone know where one can find just the snmp daemon for squeeze?

Thanks!

root@localhost:~# apt-get install snmpd
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
aptitude : Depends: libapt-pkg4.12 (>= 0.9.7.6) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-iostreams1.49.0 (>= 1.49.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libept1.4.12 (>= 1.0.9) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.6) but 4.4.5-8 is to be installed
Depends: libtinfo5 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: aptitude-doc-en but it is not going to be installed or
aptitude-doc
Recommends: apt-xapian-index but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libparse-debianchangelog-perl but it is not going to be installed
libc6 : Depends: libc-bin (= 2.11.3-4) but 2.13-38+deb7u10 is to be installed
locales : Depends: glibc-2.13-1
snmpd : Depends: libsnmp15 (>= 5.4.3~dfsg) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Edit

I just wanted to update to describe what i'm seeing. I have the correct entry and "apt-get update" runs without an issue. I suspect that the issue now is that i had run "apt-get update" using the wheezy source. How can i resolve this?

source.list entry

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ squeeze contrib main non-free

Apt-Get Update

root@Localhost:~# apt-get update
Hit http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://archive.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en
Ign http://archive.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://archive.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release
Hit http://archive.debian.org squeeze/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://archive.debian.org squeeze/main i386 Packages
Hit http://archive.debian.org squeeze/non-free i386 Packages
Reading package lists… Done

Best Answer

https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive

If you are using APT the relevant sources.list entries are like:
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ hamm contrib main non-free
or
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ bo bo-unstable contrib main non-free

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Debian – update from debian lenny to squeeze

It seems you started off with the recommended procedure for upgrading which is great. I recommend trying to stick to that instead of prematurely doing a dist-upgrade. This procedure is worked out by testing on thousands of systems and is what we think is your best chance of a smooth upgrade.

In this case when you are doing apt-get upgrade we are EXPECTING lots of packages to be held back. That is by design. We want to do just a minimal upgrade in order to get the new kernel and udev installed, then reboot, then do the rest of the upgrade with dist-upgrade.

You should be concentrating on this error:

linux-image-2.6-amd64: Depends: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 but it is not going to be installed

There is some reason why apt doesn't want to install linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64. Find out by trying to install it directly with apt-get install linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64, That will either install it, or will tell you specifically what is wrong with this package. When this results in a problem with another package, do the same with this package, by trying to install it directly, until you reach a root cause. Once the kernel is successfully installed, proceed with the upgrade instructions from there.

One artifact that doing this will have which may be undesired is marking the linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 package as automatically installed. After the upgrade is complete, and you are happy with the results, you might run apt-mark auto linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 to mark this package as automatically installed.

The reason that /etc/debian_version reads 6.0.5 is that you already update the base_files package. This is not a surpise.

The problems with mixing aptitude and apt-get were resolved with apt-get version 7.0 a few years ago, you should feel free to mix their use at will. In fact, Debian recommended aptitude for upgrading from one major release to another in the past and now recommends apt-get, so clearly Debian is recommending using both. We will recommend whichever one seems to work better for a given upgrade. On the lenny->squeeze upgrade, aptitude tends to think "too hard" about finding an optimal upgrade path, and the more simple dependency resolution in apt-get works for more people.

Kernel + libc6 issue upgrading to squeeze

Well, problem solved:

I was running an etch-as-testing, apparently.
set the apt sources.list to point to etch on archives.debian.org .
had to manually get and install etch's libc6-dev_2.3.6.ds1-13etch10+b1 from archives.debian.org , forcing the version down apt-get's throat.
dist-upgraded a couple of times.
set the apt sources.list to point to lenny on archives.debian.org .
dist-upgraded a couple more times.
had to manually download libc6_2.7-18lenny7_i386.deb , and manually copy out glib.sh to its place
dist-upgraded a couple more times.

And that's basically it. More details and high-strung attitude in the thread linked to from the question...

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