Re: amd64 sources.list file
On Sunday 18 September 2005 02:22 pm, lordSauron wrote:
> okay. I've been happily screwing around with my sources.list file,
> and I'm positively baffled. None of the amd64 servers appear to work
> for me. Thus, I'm starting a whole thread for the discussion of what
> looks to become a nice, big, fat, hairy, penguin-eating problem.
>
> My big question: what servers for both packages and sources to those
> packages will work for me (your average Californian). I've been
> working a little bit with netselect, and that was certainly
> interesting for it to find what appeared to be some of the most
> obscure servers in existance. So, I'm just going to paste the entire
> contents of the sources.list file I have right now, and let people
> yell at me for doing boneheaded things (if something wasn't working
> or I didn't want it, I commented it out instead of deleting it - a
> very good practise most of the time)
>
> === /etc/apt/sources.list ===
> # the main Debian packages.
> # deb http://204.152.191.7/debian/ stable main contrib
> # Uncomment the deb-src line if you want 'apt-get source'
> # to work with most packages.
> # deb-src http://204.152.191.7/debian/ stable main contrib
>
> deb [ftp|http]://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/debian-amd64/debian/
> [sarge|sid] main contrib
> deb-src [ftp|http]://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/debian-amd64/debian/
> [sarge|sid] main contrib
I use this one, I don't know what the {ftp\http} is about, but mine
works with http only in the source, and picking only one version, sid
or sarge. Use a browser to see if the address's are online and what is
available.
>
> deb [ftp|http]://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/
> [sarge|sid] main contrib
> deb-src [ftp|http]://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/
> [sarge|sid] main contrib
>
> # deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/ [sarge|sid] main contrib
>
> # deb http://mirrors.geeks.org/debian/dists/sid/ contrib main
> non-free
>
> # deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main
> contrib non-free
> # deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ unstable main
> contrib non-free
>
> # the non-US Debian packages.
> # deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main
> contrib # Uncomment the deb-src line if you want 'apt-get source'
> # to work with most non-US packages
> # deb-src http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main
> contrib === /etc/apt/sources.list ===
>
> That's what I have right now. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> I'd like to stop running everything in i386 emulation mode - even
> though the processor can natively do everything in x86, I'd still
> like to use the extra 32 bits - just for the heck of it, if you will.
> Plus I'd love to help develop for Linux, or even possibly help
> compile packages or that sort of a thing once I can lock down the
> situation and get eveything nice and happily 64-bit.
>
> Have a nice day!
--
Greg Madden
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