Hello, recenly I installed programs like keepassx,skype and so on... When I would install these programms I must import URL of repository to the sources.list, but I had to find these URL(for exdeb http://ppa.launchpad.net/keepassx/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
ample )!.
I want to ask you if exist any center where are all URL repository for Debian? I am confused from currently system of repository... If dont exist any center... where can I look for the URL(use google?)?! ...or its random where are repos(anywhere on the internet-its madly!)?

My opinion is: more repository-more software. I want install from repos because I want to use aptitude(apt-get) advantage!
Debian cummunity claims that 25000-30000 packages exist. But how can I use these packages when I dont have URLs of all packages in sources.list?!

Thanks for your advises.

http://www.debian.org/mirror/ tells you all you need to know.

However, I don't think you fully understand the package management system Debian uses. Debian comes in 3 versions: Stable, Testing and Unstable, each with 3 sections: main, contrib and non-free. The latter 2 are for packages that don't or can't match the Debian criteria for inclusion in main. Proprietary drivers like the ATI and nVidia videocard drivers will always be in non-free for instance, as their source code is not released by their respective owners. It is therefor useless to add more repo's as these are just duplicates of what you've already got.

If you need additional repo's for packages Debian doesn't have by default, like multimedia stuff, the dev's of those packages should offer either a separate package or a full repo url.

If English isn't your native language, and I have a feeling that includes you, visit this page: http://www.debian.org/intro/cn At the bottom of most pages it offers a translation into a local language, perhaps yours is among them too

Hello Dutch Master. At the first: I apologize for my english, I am from Czech republic(middle europe). I understand Debian's package management system. I evidently expressed no very good.
...should offer either a separate package or a full repo url.(I am interesting about 3rd party SW)
Yes I know, but the developers most dont offer repo url, but they offer separate package. I want to use aptitude and its advantages for installation. I need repo url - I mean repo url from 3rd party. For example http://ppa.launchpad.net/keepassx/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
This is repo URL from 3rd party developers. I have the following questions(and wish):

1)Where can I obtain URL Repos for truecrypt and nero(burning SW)

2)Does exist any place where are gathered these 3rd party URL repos? In case that no, that means these URL repos lies somewhere unheeded on the Internet? How can find out that these repos exist?

1) there are no repo's for these programs. Besides, Nero is a Windows program and although they've ported it to Linux the native Linux equivalent (k3b) is much better.
2) no, no and: not...

It's fairly simple: if a dev decides to offer a package stand-alone, then there is no repo, so no repo url to add to your sources.list... Because these repo's don't exist, there is no list containing them and searching for them will fail. Either use the separate packages (with dpkg as root in a terminal) or don't have the package at all...

OK... Last expression.

1) Are you really sure that they dont exist in any repos which you know? I saw both of them in my repos(by using apt-get search) before I reinstalled system, but now is it how you say

2) I have to use Nero because when I use any other burn SW so burning ended with error(I tried Brasero, Gnomebaker, K3b, CLI burner software...)

Thank you for explanation and you time
Regards Paul

Try adding the contrib and non-free repo's, like this:
Then search again.

If your hardware is failing, no software can rectify that... Try another cd/dvd writer instead.

Thank you, but I have this repository for a long time. I solved problem with burning in this thread(unsuccessfully):

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hlight=brasero

This was my story with very long error in log file...

My HW is not failed, but according to me SW which I tried was no very good, no so much like Nero. I want to GUI SW. CLI SW is too laboured for me.
Thank you for your help once more, sorry for english, but I mean that I am hopeless case.

It's not a good idea to use ubuntu repo's in debian.
try

Then

I have the skype repository for a long time. But this repo can install just skype client... This is too little

First of all, why would Ahead, and any other company that makes profit from their software, put their application in a repo accessible from everyone, while the application is not free ("free" as in "free of change")?

The 4 .rpms and .debs they provide is a small thing surely, but think that linux is not something that has a standard when it comes to package management. So all they can do is to provide packages for the two dominant "species" of package managers.

If you really want a repo for all these .debs that are "found in the wild", make one on your drive and use it as a local repo. Apt will have no problem with it.

Secondly, 3rd party repos are not maintained by debian, but from the maintainer of the relevant application, e.g. opera, virtualbox closed source, chrome and skype all have their own repos. I guess its because they are all closed source and for copyright reasons.

Here is a truecrypt installer in a deb
https://launchpad.net/truecrypt-installer/+download

Thank you for your post. I found your link a long time ago. About Nero, I meaned that this SW can be in repos because it is 3 month trial(free) version. I entwined in package management...
You are right. This thread can end

You can mark the thread as solved if you want.

...I dont know how can I end of this thread. Pleas can you do it instead me?

Go to the beginning of the thread and click on "thread tools". Click on the option mark as solved.