Re: source.list update

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 07:29:37 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote:

[...]

> As i understood, if i want to update the system via network i have to
> update source.list, but when i tried to enter these sources:
>      deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
>      deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
>      deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
> 
> nothing happened, just said that unknown command for deb. and when i
> try to man /etc/apt/sources.list it says that it is unable to edit
> manually.  by the way all commands i made in root. QUESTION: how to
> add sources to source.list?

You have to add these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list. (However, the
"non-us" one is obsolete.) If you do not have an editor installed yet
then you can do something like this:

echo "deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Please make sure that you use two greater signs, i.e. ">>"! If you run
these commands with ">" then the lines will overwrite sources.list
instead of being appended to it.

You can use a different country code in the first URL; it does not have
to be "us". 

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