apt sources.list syntax

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 22 17:04:21 UTC 2007


On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:57:11PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> Getting Debian up and running is not its strength, as you are
> discovering.  I was trying lots of different distros for a while, and I
> thought I'd keep trying others, but once I got Debian installed I found
> no reason to switch.  My systems are up to date, but I last installed
> more than two years ago.  apt-get dist-upgrade keeps me as close to the
> cutting edge as I care to be, and everything just keeps working (mostly
> - there is the occasional wobble, but I'm *astonished* at how well
> things work.)  Good luck!

I have one machine running Debian that was last installed during the
summer of 1999.  dist-upgrade works well.

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