Re: apt question

[Andrew Dixon <andrew.dixon@seranoa.com>]

HI

pReJkEr wrote:

Ello

  i've installed debian on my comp for the first time
  and when i was installing it (base-config) from an ftp site
  (ftp.pl.debian.org) apt downloads very old packages ie. xfree-3.3.6
  gnome-1.0 and so on.... can someone tell me what i have to write to
  sources.list to make apt to download new packages ie. xfree86-4.1.0
  gnome-1.4 kde-2.1......

I assume your running stable.  If this is the case the simplest way
to get all of the latest and greatest packages would be to upgrade to testing
or unstable.  To do this you change your sources.list from:

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
#                                                    ^^^^^

to:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
#                                                                ^^^^^^
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
#                                                                                   ^^^^^^
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
#                                                    ^^^^^

Note that you should keep security set to stable (why would you want unstable security fixes ; )
then just run:


#apt-get update
#apt-get dist-upgrade

or you could just install the new packages and then change your sources.list back to stable.  There are other cooler ways to install packages from testing even if your running stable but I don't know how to do it.  Anyone else have an idea?

HTH,
Andy