On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:08:53 +0000 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 14 Jan 2016 at 18:18:09 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:18 +0200 > > Amr Saber <amr.m.saber.m...@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. For testing, just remove backports and > > replace 'stable' with 'testing'. > > http.debian.net/debian/ > > is exactly the same as > > httpredir.debian.org/debian/ > > The .org indicates it is an official, supported mirror but it makes no > difference when updating and downloading. The former gets you to the > latter. > I am aware of this. I used to use httpredir.debian.org in my sources.list, but switched to http.debian.net because honestly it just looks better. Btw, what exactly is the purpose of '<release>-proposed-updates'? I always enable it for completeness' sake, but is this good practice?