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Originally Posted by widget
Go to Synaptic>Settings>Repositories.
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Personally I would advise against this method for several reasons - most notably that you will never understand the sources.list file syntax (it's very simple indeed once you get used to it) and thus will be effectively crippled if xorg breaks and you're e.g. faced with a virtual terminal wanting to change repos to pull in a package from another branch...
There was a thread at the debian forums some months ago where someone reinstalled the whole OS just to generate a new sources.list file...
There is a howto here for editing and understanding sources.list:
http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=388
(It's not a complete guide, but it gives a noob a decent run down of the minimum they need to know.)
Code:
Err http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze-updates Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'mirrors.kernel.org'
When you see "could not resolve" it means that your networking is borked or the mirror is down. For future reference, in such cases you only need to replace the mirror, thats this part: "http://mirrors.kernel.org" with one of these:
http://www.debian.org/mirror/list