Its sucks maintaining an old server while upgrading the OS is not an option, especially if said machine is just work fine and serve well with its obsolete hardware and not worth enough to put some additional investment, except just add a hard drive.
while trying to update using apt-get, if one got the :
"package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source" error, update the content of /etc/apt/sources.list with below entry, all obsolete ubuntu now filed under old-releases.ubuntu.com server :
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deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted universe multiverse
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