debian apt-get source list

dauphinfay · 05-05-2004, 07:08 AM

hi folks. just a relatively quick question here. i installed knoppix onto the hd last night and tried to run apt-get update only to find that one of the sites was unaccessable and it wouldn't move on from there. how can i fix this? i know there is a source list somewhere but i'm not sure where it is or what it is called. also, is there somewhere that i can obtain a more current list of sources?

as always, TIA

~df

p.s. oddly enough, i looked up apt-get as the search string on this site and got only 30 hits...most of which didn't relate to debian no less. how odd.

hw-tph · 05-05-2004, 09:26 AM

The source list can be found at /etc/apt/sources.list. For my small home server this is the entire contents of it:

Code:

deb ftp://mirror.pudas.net/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

You can update sources.list automatically by running /usr/sbin/apt-setup and choose a mirror close to you.

Håkan