Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list
On Thu 21 Jan 2016 at 23:10:51 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:57:52PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Whatever. To have a fully functioning system you need contrib and
> non-free in your sources.list, sure, you could go out of your way and
> buy hardware which doesn't need any firmware, but guess what, those
> people don't tend to post to this list asking for help.
>
> > I don't recommend non-free software to anyone as a matter of principle.
>
> Sure, but when their computer stops working because of an update and the
> installed firmware blob is no longer working, they'll complain to this
> list --- and guess what the posted solution will be?
>
> I'm certain it will be "oh, you're missing contrib and non-free in your
> sources.list"
>
> It appears there was some talk about refining the sources.list, but it's
> not so straight forward:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/01/msg00233.html
If non-free firmware is provided during the course of using the installer
the "official" sources.list includes non-free.
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