okay. I've been happily screwing around with my sources.list file, and I'm positively baffled. None of the amd64 servers appear to work for me. Thus, I'm starting a whole thread for the discussion of what looks to become a nice, big, fat, hairy, penguin-eating problem.
My big question: what servers for both packages and sources to those packages will work for me (your average Californian). I've been working a little bit with netselect, and that was certainly interesting for it to find what appeared to be some of the most obscure servers in existance. So, I'm just going to paste the entire contents of the sources.list file I have right now, and let people yell at me for doing boneheaded things (if something wasn't working or I didn't want it, I commented it out instead of deleting it - a very good practise most of the time) === /etc/apt/sources.list === # the main Debian packages. # deb http://204.152.191.7/debian/ stable main contrib # Uncomment the deb-src line if you want 'apt-get source' # to work with most packages. # deb-src http://204.152.191.7/debian/ stable main contrib deb [ftp|http]://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ [sarge|sid] main contrib deb-src [ftp|http]://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ [sarge|sid] main contrib deb [ftp|http]://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ [sarge|sid] main contrib deb-src [ftp|http]://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ [sarge|sid] main contrib # deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/ [sarge|sid] main contrib # deb http://mirrors.geeks.org/debian/dists/sid/ contrib main non-free # deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main contrib non-free # deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free # the non-US Debian packages. # deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib # Uncomment the deb-src line if you want 'apt-get source' # to work with most non-US packages # deb-src http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib === /etc/apt/sources.list === That's what I have right now. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to stop running everything in i386 emulation mode - even though the processor can natively do everything in x86, I'd still like to use the extra 32 bits - just for the heck of it, if you will. Plus I'd love to help develop for Linux, or even possibly help compile packages or that sort of a thing once I can lock down the situation and get eveything nice and happily 64-bit. Have a nice day!
