Here's my sources.list...

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20070819-12:16]/ etch contrib main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20070819-12:16]/ etch contrib main

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
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I this complete or am I missing sources? Seems like a couple years back there was 3 or more sources in my list.

Anything else I need to know?

Looks complete for all the basics.

you do not have contrib or non-free in your source list but that could be a personal preference, or maybe you just don't need packages from there. (things like Flash, Sun java, nVidia driers, etc..

you also do not have the debian multimedia repository in your list which is handy if you need some multimedia codecs, or the DVD decoder software..

But for a vanilla Debian box your sources are fine.

here's my sources.list with the changes I mentioned above. I have found no need to add anything else although there are specialized repositories available for specific packages.

well my sources.list looks like this;

There is a lot more you could put in there if you wanted to.

I added Multimedia and Clamav myself. Also I added contrib and non-free at the end of the other lines.

Depends on what you want/need. Take a look at> Post your source.list - LinuxQuestions.org
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e.list-330913/

My question is why did you add security updates for contrib if you don't have the contrib repos enabled for downloading packages? I would think that you only need security for what you (might) install from.

Thanks all.
I will study want all of you have and probably add them all to mine.
The reason I have what I have is because this is what came with my distro. When I installed, I only downloaded the first cd. Then when I read up on apt-get and the sources.list I couldn't understand the process very well(even though I did it 2 years ago successfully) and the only source lists I saw talked about was the 'non-free' sources. And also, the links to the sources seemed to be in a format that was differant then what is in my list.
I don't know, maybe I had a funky website.
Thanks