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Re: Debian newbie confused over apt and packages



At Wednesday, 31 December 2003, Russ Schneider <russ@sugapablo.com> 
wrote:

>Alright, I just started using Debian after being mainly a Mandrake 
user.
>
>Installed Woody and I know most of the packages like Apache, etc. need 
>upgrades.
>
>But packages.debian.org is down.  Can apt-get upgrade use different 
>servers?  Are they mirrored?
>
>I was looking through the US server http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/,
but 
>I couldn't find any packages, only lists of packages.
>
>Needless to say I'm confused as to what servers I can put in sources.
list 
>at this time.
>
>Is 
>deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
>still up?
>
>Could someone provide for me a line like that for updated packages for 
>sources.list that lists a currently available server (if one is 
>available)?  
>

my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

deb http://debian.parsed.net unstable main
deb-src http://debian.parsed.net unstable main


after changing /etc/apt/sources.list , run apt-get update 

this will build the source trees in /var/lib/apt/lists

you might want to get rid of the lined in sources.list that are unstable.













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