Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

[Jose Martinez <jomartinez812@gmail.com>]

On 01/13/2016 05:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 January 2016 23:22:30 David Christensen wrote:
> > On 01/13/2016 10:31 AM, Amr Saber wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > > While I was configuring some thing in the sources.list file as apt-get
> > > couldn't get any package I wanted or asked for (I double checked the
> > > spelling for each package) and it just said package not found ...
> >
> > You can search for packages here:
> >
> >       http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
> >
> > > any way, The problem is that the sources.list file was accidentally
> > > deleted
> >
> > It's useful to make copies of original configuration files before
> > editing them:
> >
> >       # cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list-orig
> >
> >       # vi /etc/apt/sources.list
> >
> >
> > Better yet is putting them into a version control system.
> >
> >   > and I can't find any version of it online and ofcourse the apt-get is
> >   > no longer working at all
> >
> > Somebody already posted a Jessie file.  Here's my Wheezy file:
> >
> > $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> > #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.8.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 xfce-CD
> > Binary-1 20150110-14:41]/ wheezy main
> >
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
> > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
> >
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
> > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
> >
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main
> > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main
> >
> > deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main
> >
> >
> > David
>
> And in case you are less purist:
>
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ wheezy-backports iceweasel-release

Lisi, where can you get the authentication signature for the the 
mozilla.debian.net repository??

> Though in both cases Brian's choice of mirror was better.
>
> Lisi

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Que te vaya bien
JM