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Re: [debian-user] Debian Repository Usage



On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 02:46:06PM -0700, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote:

> My question:  Is there a way of telling apt-get or some other debian 
> package  to go to the Debian REPOSITORY and fetch and install a particular 
> item such as the SAMBA server and other servers.  What would be the bash 
> command line for this kind of operation?  Could someone provide me with the 
> command line for the SAMBA server as an example. I need to over ride the 
> present behavior of apt-get or aptitude so they reference packages in the 
> Debian Repository.  I have been reading documentation but can't find 
> information on this specific issue.

You need to adjust your sources.list, then you should be able to install 
packages from the Debian repos (though I would definitely NOT do this on 
a Ubuntu install).

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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