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Re: Easy question for new user regarding sources.list





Andrew Donnellan wrote:

Please post this to -user. (For the record, I support the -testing
name change proposal.)

Andrew

On 1/15/06, resonant evil <air.lightz@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all..  I just installed Debian from a TESTING net install image I
downloaded, and just have 1 or 2 easy questions that I can hopefully get
answered and save in my inbox so I never have to ask again :)

1st question:  I seem to be missing alot of packages that I can't get
through aptitude.  From memory, I remember there is a key step in adding
some additional lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list .  Also, I want to use
current-version software if that is possible..  My /etc/apt/sources.list is
as follows:

---

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386
Binary-1 (20060114)]/ etch main


deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386
Binary-1 (20060114)]/ etch main
deb
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/debian/
etch main
deb-src
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/debian/
etch main

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main

---

I thought I remembered having many more lines than that, but am sorry that
I have forgotten what they are..  I tried googling around 'debian etch
sources.list' and things like that, but nothing that I could find that
explained the process :(   The reason I think I am missing key packages is
because basic things like 'ncurses' or 'ncurses-devel' for me to even do a
'make menuconfig' for my kernel are missing and can't be obtained through
aptitude :-(

And I suppose the second question is, this version I am using is ETCH,
which is one version behind SID right?
Fairless replies:

Unstable is always SID because he is the boy in Toy Story that breaks all the toys.

Is SID too unstable for me to use?

Fairless replies:

That depends on whether broken or incomplete packages bother you. If you like testing for bugs and getting them fixed, then SID may be right for you. Stable, presently sarge, is for those people who want stability for production machines like servers. Most people go for testing which is currently etch since the packages are usually working especially as a release date approaches. Right now since sarge only went stable this past June 2005, etch or testing is still somewhat raw.

I'd really like to try things like the new Gnome or the newest versions of
KDE, and programs like gaim beta 2.0+ which require the newest versions of
GTK and such..

Sorry for the newbie questions but I'm just a new user still trying to
learn the ropes :(

Thanks in advance all, and any help would be greatly appreciated :-)

-Ryan



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Fairless replies:

Dear 'resonant evil:'

   Here is a portion of the the sources.list that I use:


deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib
#deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main
#deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main

deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main

#deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian woody main
#deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian woody main


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

You'll probably want to replace stable with either testing or etch or even perhaps unstable for your purposes.

HTH!

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