Re: Where to go from here
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Colin Bell wrote:
> Okay,
>
> I have been trying to get a useful Debian unstallation up for about 5
> weeks now. I can get the base system installed but then where do I look
> for new packages (the iso image contains next to nothing from what I can
> tell)? I don't know what to set in the /etc/apt/sources.list file. I
> probably have missed something in some of the documents but the
> dselect-beginners guide doesn't tell you much of anything. I'm looking
> to find xfree86-4.0.*, kde-2.2 and Mozilla or netscape. I guess I could
> build the whole system from source but I figure there has to be a way or
> all the debian developers are just wasting their time.
>
> When I state in the sources.list file that apt can look in the unstable
> tree it seems to automatically tell itself to remove a whole bunch of
> packages. I'm really getting bitter. I know I could just go to Redhat
> and grab that and install it but this is a labour of love. I see the
> power of apt and dselect I just don't know how to harness it. Maybe I'm
> just supposed to grab single debs off the net, I don't know.
>
> Any help or direction (maybe there is a better dselect guide) would be
> much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Colin
Hello,
a first step: enable line wrapping in your browser please?
Add these lines to sources.list:
deb ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/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/ potato/updates main contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib
and if you want to converse your installation slowly to woody (testing),
add these:
deb ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
with ftp.nl.uu.net your favorite (nearby) Debian mirror.
Run 'apt-get update' to get the new archives, and you have a lot of new
packages to install.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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