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Question #78237 on Ubuntu changed:
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actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
If you read your meu.lst that you have pasted, you are running Gutsy
which is long dead and not officially supported.

The version number relates to the year and month of release.

E.g.

9.04 was released April 2009, the next release is 9.10 which is in Alpha
and is due for release in October 2009

The releases have progressively later kernels and different versions of
xorg which in turn need apps compiling different which is why you should
not mix repos as you will get issues (Some people like to learn the hard
way though). A Jaunty repo is for Jaunty, a Gutsy repo is for Gutsy.

As your install is old, I suggest you clean install as upgrading to
Jaunty will involve an initial upgrade to Hardy, then to intrepid, then
to Jaunty which will take a fair whack of time. Make sure your backups
of home are recent if they are not on a seperate partition

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