Re: access for non-us packages
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 09:05:38PM -0600, Pat Greenwood wrote:
> Due to the amount of time it was taking to obtain selected packages in
> dselect, I edited against the Access defaults to try specific mirror
> sites. I'm back to what I think were the suggested paths. I've tried:
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US and
> http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US non-US main contrib non-free
> which I determined from reading the source for apt.
I've attached my /etc/apt/sources.list file to this email; you should be
able to simply copy it if you want a fairly bleading-edge system (potato
distribution, with yet-to-land gnome and gnome-apt front-end. Of cource,
you don't need to get gnome if you don't want it.)
> Is it unrealistic to expect success attempting to install from the net
> or should I surrender to CD's?
It is absolutly reasonable, and I think would be considered a bug if it
dosn't work.
> Is there a faster way to obtain some bells and whistles via the net? My
> current plan is to Install the minimum necessary to get X Window running
> with wmaker and a couple of games, then add packages later.
I'd suguest enlightenment over wmaker, btw, but that's largely a personal
choice.
-=- James Mastros
# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
# your mirror contains.
# deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especial
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
#deb ftp://debian.midco.net/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US
#deb ftp://debian.midco.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free non-US
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US
deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main
deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt unstable main
deb http://pages.infinit.net/linux debian/
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