On Wed, 01 Nov 2000, Francis Joseph Conry wrote:
> what do the deb main stable contrib non-free params mean?
these are categories of packages
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
> > deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
If you have these lines as your sources.list file, you should be able to get
all .deb packages main, contrib, and non-free categories of the stable
distribution, including non-US and update packages.
>
> I want to add lyx and I don't know how to add sites, the ftp site for lyx
> is ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx
>
> and once I add a source is that all I have to do?
>
Not sure on this, but I'm pretty sure dkpg and the family only work on .deb
packages. There should be .deb for lyx on one of the sites in your sources.list
file. If you want to get something from Woody, s/stable/unstable/ in
sources.list.
Jake
