Take the 2-minute tour ×  So I handed over an old linux box
which has Debian Linux. I do'nt know which exact release it is.
/etc/debian_version reveals testing/unstable. Based on a rough
idea of when the server was put in production first, I guessed
at it being an install of "Potato" release. So I updated my
/etc/apt/sources.list to read  deb
http://archive.debian.org/debian/ potato main contrib non-free
However when I do  sudo apt-get install apache2-utils  I get a
package not found error. I have also tried  apt-get update  To
no avail. Any ideas? I'm trying to install apache2-utils to get
a hold of the 'ab' utility to test some web server stuff.
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Debian Potato does not appear to contain Apache2 at all.  If you
want to verify that it is indeed Potato you have installed, take
a look inside http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main
/binary-i386/Packages and compare the version numbers to some of
the packages you have installed locally. You ca