(SOLVED) Chromebook Linux Apt-Get Update Error

Solution:

Summary

Running apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change and then apt-get update fixed it.

Original Problemset:

Recently setup the Linux sandbox environment on my Chromebook Acer CB315. I could already install VSCode and other apps without problem. When trying to update the linux environment I now get the following error. Does this mean I have to updated sources.list ? Didn’t want to run any random stuff from Reddit and thought I would ask here first. Maybe someone knows what I can do about this?

Reading package lists… Done
N: Repository ‘Index of /debian buster InRelease’ changed its ‘Version’ value from ‘10.9’ to ‘10.10’
E: Repository ‘Index of /debian buster InRelease’ changed its ‘Suite’ value from ‘stable’ to ‘oldstable’
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
E: Repository ‘https://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease’ changed its ‘Suite’ value from ‘stable’ to ‘oldstable’
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.

This is the current sources.list:

Generated by distrobuilder

deb Index of /debian buster main
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main

Current OS:

ympker@penguin:/etc$ cat os-release
PRETTY_NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)”
NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=“10”
VERSION=“10 (buster)”
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=debian
HOME_URL=“https://www.debian.org/
SUPPORT_URL=“https://www.debian.org/support
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.debian.org/

This should do it:

apt update --allow-releaseinfo-change
apt full-upgrade
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Thanks for sharing :slight_smile: Already solved this a while ago and put solution in OP. I haven’t tried full-upgrade, though. Maybe would have worked even better than what I did.

Ah, I see now. I never do upgrade, always full-upgrade and never had problems with it in all these decades. :smiley:

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