Raspbian / Debian apt-get update buster InRelease changed its suite from stable to oldstable

Posted on by David Florey

Issue:

Running Debian or Raspbian Buster and issuing the command(s):

apt-get update

or

sudo apt-get update

Doesn’t appear to go through and provides the following output messages:

Get:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease [15.0 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease [32.6 kB]
Reading package lists... Done
E: Repository 'http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian 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 'http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'testing' to 'oldstable'
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.

 

Cause:

Debian has not too long ago updated the release from Buster to Bullseye, which means that Buster is no longer the ‘In Release’ build of Debian or Raspbian Linux.

 

Solution:

You need to let APT change the ‘suite’ values from stable to oldstable by issuing the command(s):

apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change

or

sudo apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change

 

 

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