On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 05:15 pm, Alan L Tyree wrote: > OK, I installed the Debian distribution that SLUG fixed up in the one cd > package. Installation was much easier than I thought on an old Compaq > Armada. > > Everything looks good, BUT question: > > what should a reasonable sources.list file contain? > > Help appreciated, > Cheers, > Alan
Check out http://www.apt-get.org/ for a good list of backports and packages that arn't part of the "official" debian distribution. They even have the correct syntax for the sources.list files - cut, paste, you're done :) Dunno if it's "good" but here's mine on a stable (Woody) machine with a couple of extra sources for the odd backport (namely OpenOffice 1.1, KDE 3.1.4 and some system level stuff): /etc/apt/sources.list # Installation CD's # Commented them out coz newer stuff was online and I gotta fast(ish) link. # Standard Debian packages: deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/ stable main non-free contrib # The following lines should be on one line each (mail wrapping at 76 chars) deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib \ non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib \ non-free # Security Patches and Standard Patches for Woody deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free # # Custom sources below here # # XFree86 4.2 Packages for Woody deb http://people.debian.org/~frankie/debian woody/x421/ # KDE - latest # Official KDE Mirror deb http://download.au.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/ woody main # OpenOffice.org deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/debian-openoffice/ woody main contrib # Mozilla # backports.org has newer versions than here - but left it in anyway deb http://people.debian.org/~otavio woody mozilla # Various Packages/Backports - mostly system level stuff like apache etc. deb http://debian.moolfreet.com ./ deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable all --James __________________________________ A random quote of nothing: <james> abuse me. I'm so lame I sent a bug report to debian-devel-changes -- Seen on #Debian -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
