Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 08:17:42 +1300 Chris Bannister
<cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 06:18:09PM +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.
>
> It's not complete, it's missing contrib and non-free.
>
Correction: complete *official* setup anyway. Unless Debian has dropped
any pretence of contrib and non-free being unofficial.
I don't recommend non-free software to anyone as a matter of principle.
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