Hello everybody

I've been using Debian Etch for the past one year. In one of my amd64 machines, I installed Lenny using the first DVD. Now, how can I install software in repositories? Should I add corresponding entries to the sources.list file? If so, please tell what they are. In addition, using kpackage, I tried to upgrade the system via internet. It produced an error message, whose details I list below as it is.

< export DEBIAN_FRONTEND; apt-get dist-upgrade;echo RESULT=$?
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
debconf: Depends: debconf-i18n but it is not going to be installed or
debconf-english but it is not installable
libbcel-java: Depends: libregexp-java but it is not going to be installed
libmx4j-java: Depends: java-gcj-compat but it is not going to be installed or
java1-runtime or
java2-runtime
Depends: liblog4j1.2-java but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
RESULT=100

Please help me.
Allwyn.

what is in /etc/apt/preferences?

No, there is nothing like 'preferences' is /etc/apt folder. The folder has two sub-folders namely apt.conf.d and sources.list.d. In addition, it has six files of other names. Any other information needed?

Post your sources.list file.

Is one of them "apt.conf"? ... If so, include the contents of that file.