Klaus Knopper answers your Linux questions

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Article from Issue 177/2015
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Klaus addresses problems with Wheezy updates, Adobe Flash, dial-up settings, and mountpoint dates.

Wheezing Wheezy

Hi Klaus: In Knoppix 7.5.0, all of a sudden there is an error message that appears every time I want to install or update a software package:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install <packagename>
Reading package lists... Done
E: The value 'wheezy' is invalid for
  APT::Default-Release as such a
  release is not available in the
  sources

How can I fix this?

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