Debian Sid sources.list (for kde 3.1 etc.)
 

hey guys,
i just installed debian on my machine(this being the 5th time) and i did get X working finally...however as you know debian woody comes with kde 2.2 so i downloaded the first two cd's of sid and added those to my dources.list file and then did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade..hoping that i now have sid installed(do i?).
newayz when i did startx again i am still getting kde 2.2 so i went to kde's site to look for debian sources and i did find a line to add to my sources.list even though it said that it was for woody...i still gave it a shot...again the same steps update and upgrade...however i still have kde 2.2.
can anyone run me through how to install 3.1 thru apt and also a good sources.list file...i have a very minimal file right now which looks like this:
another problem i am having is with my sound server...when i do startx it says that it cant find /dev/dsp however i did check in /dev and it does has dsp...i changed this devices ownership and group to normal user and chmod'd it to 777...still to no effect(and oh...this happens both as root as well as normal user).
I am very excited about finally being able to install debian...i would really appreciate any help i could get to get this thing working exactly to my liking...
Thanks a lot.

Re: Debian Sid sources.list (for kde 3.1 etc.)
 

No. apt-get dist-upgrade, after you point to the sid repository in sources.list is what will upgrade woody to sid.

I'm not much of a Debian user, so I can't confirm this, but here goes.

Move the KDE line to be first in the file. I think that it sees that KDE is on the CD and doesn't bother to look at it.

A little offtopic:
Has anybody noticed that quite a few of the Debian mirrors are missing packages? I had to go through three mirrors before I could find one with cpp.

Sources list from knoppix:

# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.

# Security updates for "stable"
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

# Stable
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib non-free

# Sources
# deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib non-free

# Testing
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free

# Sources
# deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free

# Unstable
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

# Sources
# deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

# Experimental
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main contrib non-free

# Mozilla
deb http://non-us.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla/ ./
# deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla/ ./

# GNOME 2.0
deb http://www.gnome.de/debian/ ./

# KDE 3
deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde/ stable main
# deb-src http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde/ stable main
# We get packages from testing/unstable for now

# cdbakeoven
deb http://coyote.asoc.euitt.upm.es/mud/debian/ ./

# XFree 4.2/4.3
deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/packages/ sid/i386/
# deb-src http://people.debian.org/~branden/packages/ sid/source/
deb http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386/ ./
# deb-src http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/source/ ./

# Java
deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian/ woody main non-free
# deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian/ woody main non-free
deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian/ unstable main non-free
# deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian/ unstable main non-free
## deb http://people.debian.org/~sgybas/jdk13

# LyX & others (now in debian/unstable)
deb ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian/ unofficial/
# deb-src ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian/ unofficial/

# Evolution
deb ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/debian/ stable main
# deb-src ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/debian/ stable main

# Blades Repository (pppoeconf & co)
deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing/ ./
# deb-src http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing/ ./

# Wine CVS snapshot
deb http://people.debian.org/~andreas/debian/ wine main
# deb-src http://people.debian.org/~andreas/debian/ wine main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main

#firebird
##deb http://debian.netfarm.it/4sid

#marillat
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main

This list is from before the server compromise at debian - some of the sources might not work.I didn't use it in some time but apt-get.org is always a good place to check.

the sources.list of knoppix was good but it was never fast enough for me...are there any faster repositories?