APT HOWTO, sources.list man page.
Hi there,
I'm a long-time user of Linux, mostly Slackware. This is my first
Debian installation, I'm trying it out on an AMD64 system.
Largely thanks to outdated and unclear documentation - if I were a
real newbie I'd be in serious trouble by now - it's been hard going
thus far. Apart from a couple of hiccups with X it's performed well
enough, and I'll persevere until I've beaten it into submission.
I'm very happy to submit documentation patches. Here is the thing
that's caused me most grief:
In
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html#s-sources.list
(which seems to have been updated last in August 2005) I see in section 2.1
"We usually find the following in the default Debian sources.list:
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especially
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
..."
In the latest release (Etch)
$ man sources.list
still mentions non-us in several places.
Since 'non-US' was apparently made obsolete some time ago, this is misleading.
73,
Ged.
PS: How come emacs isn't installed by default?!
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