Re: Newbie to Debian 12.7

On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 4:57 PM Gregory Forster <debian4greg@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

I have an older 14" HP Probook 440 with Intel core I3-4000M, 1TB
HDD, 12GB RAM. After several weeks of debating and switching back and
forth between Debian and Fedora, I settled upon Debian 12.7 with the
Cinnamon desktop, for several reasons. However, there is one question I
have regarding Debian. How do I get another repository for more apps?
Or, how do I get certain apps, such as: Bible Time, KeePass, VLC Media
Player, Audacity?

If you selected a mirror during the installation then you should already have all the main repos. If you did not, you will only have the installer. If you paste the following lines into the /etc/apt/sources.list file you will have all of the official Debian Repos using the deb.debian.org repo.

# See https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList for more information.
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian testing-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-updates main

Also you will want to comment out the line for the CD/DVD installer.

Happy Hacking

Tim

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