Re: question about no free repo
On Sat, 12 May 2012 11:02:54 -0500, mike wrote in message
<[🔎] 0a4301cd3058$b1725d90$145718b0$@us>:
> hi,
>
> i got one of the non-free repos to work but when i use this one at
> fails any suggestions?
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
..looks ok.
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main
> contrib non-free
..fails, because it was _dropped_, _many_ years back. If you
haven't updated it in the last 5? years and you have sensitive
personal data on it, take it off the net, secure your data,
and do a fresh install over it, either Squeeze or Wheezy,
both these have reasonable security support, the old stuff
is junk and is no longer supported.
..to pick a nice quick speedy mirror, try apt-spy:
arnt@celsius:~$ apt-cache show apt-spy
Package: apt-spy
Version: 3.2.2-1
Installed-Size: 105
Maintainer: Stefano Canepa <sc@linux.it>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3), libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2)
Description-en: writes a sources.list file based on bandwidth tests
Parses the list of mirrors downloaded from ftp.debian.org and then
based on the region specified by the user each of testes mirrors for
bandwidth, at the end it writes /etc/apt/sources.list.d/apt-spy.list
using the best mirror it found out.
Description-md5: da1a3328493baadab139010ab429ce8b
Tag: admin::package-management, interface::commandline,
network::scanner, protocol::ftp, protocol::http, role::program,
scope::utility, suite::debian, use::downloading, use::scanning
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/apt-spy/apt-spy_3.2.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 29490
MD5sum: 151f423f917dde02d256e41929b1b60e
SHA1: 1b23f6d91ac8cd4d21f1940f1119ff629d770147
SHA256: a0328abb192ef1b796d468ed28fb04c52f3fddc5c1210c901fcd2a2eff1c2b14
arnt@celsius:~$
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