Re: apt sources

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

alex wrote:

> I'm having a problem understanding the architecture of apt sources
> and have difficulty in getting packages with apt and dselect.
>
> According to the APT HOWTO, 2.1, The /etc/apt/sources.list file
> it says: (quote)
> "The entries in this file normally follows this format:"
>
> "deb-http://site.http.org/debian distribution section1 section2 section3"
>
> "deb-src http://site.http.org/debian distribution section1 section2 
> section3"
>
> Question---isn't 'site.http' supposed to be 'http.site' ?
>
> ---------
> The following sources are copied directly from my 
> /etc/apt/sources.list.  It seems to me that there are errors
> such as  /  either missing or in the wrong place.
>
> Could someone comment on whether or not the sources are correctly
> structured as is or what the error is?
> -----

Format is like this:
 deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
 deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl