apt sources.list syntax

[Merv Curley]

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 21:57, KEITH MASTIN wrote:
> I found the answer in apt Pinning. Swapped the last line for this:
>
> #Debian Unstable
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free
>
> This works now.
>
> 10X
>
> KEITH MASTIN <kmastin-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote: Hey all;
> ....
> If someone could shed some light on this or lead me in the right direction,
> I would be eternally grateful. TIA
>

There are other useful repositories, maybe the most useful is

debian-mutlimedia.org   but a mirror that is ok is [sources.list]

deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/debian/debian-multimedia etch main

You will see error messages until you

apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring

In a few months if your system is still stable you could change to the testing 
repository which will upgrade many programs to newer versions. All this 
involves is changing the word 'etch' to 'testing' in each line of 
sources.list. I would stay away from 'unstable' for awhile.

You really only need 3 active lines in sources.list, all packages in etch, 
security updates from etch and the debian-multimedia site. You will come 
across more, if you want google-earth, they have a debian repository and so 
on.

It is highly unlikely that you will need any source code debs so put a # at 
the head of the deb-src lines. You are finished with the CDRom so that could 
also have a # at the beginning of the line.

These will all speedup the 'apt-get update' that you should do weekly or more 
often.

Hopefully you understood Lennart's message, but I wouldn't be surprised to 
hear otherwise, :-)

Enjoy  apt-getting


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Merv Curley
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