Re: backports

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Francesco Pietra wrote:
> I need to install "checkinstall" for Linux Debian etch, from backports,
> primarily on amd64 etch. To check viability, and modifying a recipe found for
> "sarge", I unsuccessfully tried with i386 by:
> 
> (1) Adding this line to my /etc/apt/sources.list file
> 
> deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ etch-backports main contrib non-free
> 
[...]

The above line works for me (giving only a GPG error) with both "aptitude
update" and "apt-get update". You could also try one of the mirrors[1]. This
works for me using the UK mirror:

deb http://www.uk.backports.org/ etch-backports main contrib non-free


[1] http://www.backports.org/debian/README.mirrors.html

-- 
Chris.