Re: apt question

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:51:47PM +0200, 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......

maybe you have an older CD set? the CDs might have an
older instance (you may even be running SLINK, heavens)...

for safety's sake, stick with potato for a while --
do "apt-setup" to get the sources.list the way you like it, then
"apt-get update" followed by "apt-get upgrade".

if you have trouble with that, try changing sources.list to

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

and then

	apt-get update
	apt-get upgrade

remember -- there's tradeoffs between "latest untested bug farm"
and "thoroughly beaten and tested and cleaned up".

i stick with potato. it worked yesterday, it'll still work
tomorrow. i may WANT something fancy that's only in woody, but i
can make do with potato just fine. and intelligent contributors
keep backporting other gizmos to potato anyway--

	# postgresql 7.* -- for potato
	deb http://www.samfundet.no/~tfheen/debian potato main

	# potato webmin
	deb http://www.braincells.com/pub/debian/Local potato/

keep your eyes open.  and read my intro at

	http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html

-- 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #36 from Sean Quinlan <smq@gmx.co.uk> 
:
Looking to CHANGE THE DEFAULT LS COLORS? It's simple: first,
	dircolors -p >~/.dircolors
and then edit the results to suit your tastes; finally, insert
	eval `dircolors -b ~/.dircolors`
in your ~/.bashrc. Next time you log in (or source ~/.bashrc)
your new colors will take effect.

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...