Re: Need urls for apt sources.list
Andrew Konosky wrote:
I have my system up and running, but I am still using the default
sources.list and I want to add some more repositories but haven't been
able to find any through google searching. What are the standard urls,
and what about extra packages and stuff?
There is a list of mirrors here:
http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
I'm not sure what you want to do, but I am new to Debian also. There is
a package called netselect it is easy to use it tests your speed to all
of the Debian mirrors. In my case I invoke it with netselect -ns
sarge and it gives me the fastest mirror and the fastest non-us
mirror. But after using it for a while I decided I don't like it and am
using apt-spy which is a bit more complicated but one advantage it has
is it can output a file of the x best mirrors. apt-spy will write a
/etc/apt/sources.list with the best mirror and the security repository.
But I don't let it do that I make it output that to a different file. I
also make it output a file with the top 5 mirrors and I edit the
sources.list by hand to have 5 or so to chose from. I've spent days
playing with sources.list and the various apt utilities. I used to use
Mandrake and this apt-get stuff is way more fun than rpms. Here is a
trick, :
dpkg --get-selections > /media/floppy/fearless.list put a label on
that floppy saying dpkg --set-selections < /media/floppy/fearless.list
that and your install cd will someday make you smile. Debian is fun.
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