Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:08:53 +0000
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 14 Jan 2016 at 18:18:09 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:18 +0200
> > Amr Saber <amr.m.saber.mail@gmail.com> 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 ... any way, The problem is that the sources.list file
> > > was accidentally deleted and I can't find any version of it
> > > online and ofcourse the apt-get is no longer working at all
> >
> > Assuming you're running stable,
> >
> > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable main
> > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable-updates main
> > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable-proposed-updates main
> > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable-backports main
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
> >
> > is the complete setup. For testing, just remove backports and
> > replace 'stable' with 'testing'.
>
> http.debian.net/debian/
>
> is exactly the same as
>
> httpredir.debian.org/debian/
>
> The .org indicates it is an official, supported mirror but it makes no
> difference when updating and downloading. The former gets you to the
> latter.
>
I am aware of this. I used to use httpredir.debian.org in my
sources.list, but switched to http.debian.net because honestly it just
looks better.
Btw, what exactly is the purpose of '<release>-proposed-updates'? I
always enable it for completeness' sake, but is this good practice?
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