Re: Debian newbie confused over apt and packages
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 20:04, Russ Schneider 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?
Apt-get doesn't use packages.debian.org, but rather the servers and subsections in /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> I was looking through the US server http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/, but
> I couldn't find any packages, only lists of packages.
Apt-get uses these lists to get at the actual packages. As others have said, use apt-setup to set up to point to this, or one of the other mirrors.
>
> 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?
Don't know - probably, but if you want updated versions of the packages you have to change the stable section to either sarge (or testing) or unstable (or sid). Woody doesn't have any package updates, only security updates from the line your already listed above.
Can I recommend you try aptitude - or if running gnome synaptic, these are interactive tools to help you select packages you want to install.
> 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)?
This is my list for unstable (ie bleeding edge) from the uk. This came from apt-setup with a little help from other sources
(see www.apt-get.org)
# Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
# put the bluyonder first so that is tried first - but the second may be more
# up to date
deb ftp://debian.blueyonder.co.uk/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
## Various Multimedia Helper Apps (MPlayer) ##
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main
#java
deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian sid main non-free
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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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