Stable to Oldstable, the Quick Debian 10 Apt Fix

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During my day job at CircleCI, I’ve noticed more and more users running into an issue. With the recent release of Debian 11 “Bullseye”, the maintainers made a change to the Debian 10 repositories that is causing a breaking issue.

The Error

Here’s the error you’d see:

| InRelease’ changed its ‘Suite’ value from ‘stable-updates’ to ‘oldstable-updates

The Fix

To fix it, you just need to run:

apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change

This will acknowledge the change that Debian made and allow you to continue to use Apt as normal. Depending on your circumstances, switching to Debian 11 would be a solution as well.

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