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i am new to debian

i wanna install the nvidia-kernel source and other software and the non-us

Code:

#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main



deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main

deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main



deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main

how i can change the mirror sites for non us
and it also not found some packages

Code:

E: Package sndconfig has no installation candidate

debian66:/home/salahuddin# apt-get install sndconfig

Reading Package Lists... Done

Building Dependency Tree... Done

Package sndconfig is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source

E: Package sndconfig has no installation candidate

debian66:/home/salahuddin#

Add the following to /etc/sources.list:

Code:

deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free

deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free

Then run 'apt-get update'

sndconfig is no longer available in sarge or sid. sndconfig dosen't work with the 2.6 kernel and has been replaced by the discover package.

~Thomas

thanx
i have cange but i made the

last deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main

line unchange is it oky ?

thanx again

You shouldn't need that line at all. Debian dosen't offer security updates for testing or unstable.

~Thomas

Some nvidia packages are back in Sarge, but not all of them, http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages

Get them from unstable if needed.