Re: /etc/apt/sources.list -- howto...

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

  :-) sweet memories, I remember some time ago when suddenly the
non-free returned errors, I spent some time figuring out what line to
use - I saw that the packages are there but did not know how to
construct the proper line in sources.list. I finally came up with the
following line that seems to work:

deb http://non-us.debian.org/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

  the web site that the link below points to offers slightly different
line:

deb http://non-US.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib
non-free

  I am not talking about unstable versus potato but about directory
debian-non-US specified in second line - what difference does it make?

	erik

will trillich wrote:
> 
> after seven months, i still stumble into handy discoveries like this:
> 
> using apt-get and sources.list to update your debian system:
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/ch-upgrading.en.html
> 
> [of course, i wish i'd found it five months ago when i was originally
> looking for it... NOW, i'm looking for a list of active mirrors so i can
> get around the 'ftp.us.debian.org is dead' syndrome... any ideas?]
> 
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