Correcting an old forsaken eBox installation

[Saturn2888]

I had a lot of issues with my eBox 1.2 build for many reasons and I couldn't figure out how to fix it. Always some sort of foomatic issue and some other things. Finally, I got an idea. I remember Javi talking about how the package manager source locations changed and I modified my eBox 1.1 and old 1.2 list locations to only: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ebox/1.2/ubuntu hardy main. You need to make sure you run apt-get update, then run your normal apt-get options such as dist-upgrade. Now eBox is at 1.2.3 instead of 1.2. It's back to being speedy and works as it should. Since I already configured a second server to take over as I put this one to rest, it's good to know I was finally able to fix that issue. I can't believe the fix was so easy.

EXTRA NOTES
Never ever put a Debian or non-Ubuntu location in /etc/apt/sources.list unless the people you're getting the location from have strictly said it's okay to use such as deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian unstable main non-free for Oracle XE otherwise you can screw up everything. My entire problem happened because Lenny had a newer version of SSH which I needed, and I thought it'd be alright to just download that one package. Little did I know it would  also change all of my other packages and dependencies. I spent weeks trying to downgrade all my packages back to what they were supposed to be at.