Re: Changed sources list for viewing

["R. J. Winslow" <ralph.winslow@verizon.net>]

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When, on Friday 25 January 2002 04:00, rnich@nyip.net wrote, I replied:

Here's what happened for me when I tried the directions below:

root@rjw# apt-get install netselect
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  netselect 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.6kB of archives. After unpacking 49.2kB will be used.
Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org potato/main netselect 0.2-5 [12.6kB]
Fetched 12.6kB in 5s (2252B/s)    
Selecting previously deselected package netselect.
(Reading database ... 92712 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking netselect (from .../netselect_0.2-5_i386.deb) ...
Setting up netselect (0.2-5) ...

root@rjw# pwd
/root
root@rjw# netselect-apt stable
su: netselect-apt: not found
root@rjw# apt-netselect stable
su: apt-netselect: not found
root@rjw# netselect-apt stable
su: netselect-apt: not found
root@rjw# netselect stable    
netselect: unknown host stable
root@rjw# netselect testing
netselect: unknown host testing

Where am I going wrong?


> Sarah,
>
> It strikes me that you probably don't need so many lines for identical
> "testing" archives.  I don't think you'll need the potato lines any more
> either (though _maybe_ there are some instances where this will ease the
> transition).  The KDE archive you list is quite dated; the KDE packages in
> testing should be fine.
>
> Debian has a nifty little utility called netselect-apt that will actually
> find the archive that will give you the fastest download.  You'll need to
> install it first ('apt-get install netselect') and then run it:
>
> 	netselect-apt testing
>
> This will create a new sources.list for for woody/testing you in the
> current directory.  Here's what I got from my machine, which is parked in
> Maine:
>
> # the main Debian packages.  Uncomment the deb-src line if you
> # want 'apt-get source' to work with most packages.
> deb http://debian.oit.umass.edu/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
> # deb-src http://debian.oit.umass.edu/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
>
> # the non-US Debian packages.  Uncomment the deb-src line if you
> # want 'apt-get source' to work with non-US packages.
> deb http://debian.oit.umass.edu/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib
> non-free
> # deb-src http://debian.oit.umass.edu/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main
> contrib non-free
>
> I recommend doing this as regular user from within your home directory.  If
> you're happy with it, add the libranet and security lines, and then copy it
> over to /etc/apt/sources.list as root.
>
> Hope this proves useful...
>
> --Rob
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:25:28PM -0600, Sarah Hay wrote:
> > Here is the sources.list that I have altered to upgrade to woody. Could
> > someone paruse it and tell me if i am good to go. You will note that I
> > also added sources.
> >
> > # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
> > # your mirror contains.
> > # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
> > # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial
> > # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
> >
> > #Libranet
> > deb https://libranetlinux.com updates/
> >
> > #Debian
> > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
> > #deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
> > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
> > deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
> > deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> > deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> > deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian testing main contrib non-free
> > deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian testing main contrib non-free
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> >
> > #Debian Non-US
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free
> > #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/ woody/non-US main contrib non-free
> > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ woody/non-US main contrib non-free
> > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib
> > non-free
> > deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main
> > contrib non-free
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib
> > non-free
> >
> > #Debian security updates
> > deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main contrib
> > non-free
> > #deb-src ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main
> > contrib non-free
> >
> > #KDE
> > deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/debian potato main crypto optional qt1apps
> > #deb-src ftp://kde.tdyc.com/debian potato main crypto optional qt1apps
> >
> > #helixcode
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ______
> >
> > I would welcome any comment and suggestions. Also, is there a woody
> > security source? I couldn't find one and replacing potato with woody or
> > testing failed to pass the apt-get update command.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sarah
> >
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