Older Distributions Repositories – Debian

As root, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change the ftp.debian.org entries to archive.debian.org, as follows:

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ <name> main non-free contrib
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian/ <name> main non-free contrib

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/ <name>/updates main non-free contrib
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/ <name>/updates main non-free contrib

Note that you need to substitute <name> with the codename of the distribution you are interested in

As root, run:

apt-get install debian-archive-keyring

and once done, again as root run:

apt-get update

and you’re ready for doing any installs / upgrades to your system.