I Use DSL, A Debian distro that unfortunately has no DVD Program. I need an easy Install as I know very little shell command line stuff
Also /etc/ has no /apt/ directory so can't use apt-get for install


HHHHHEEEELLLP!

http://www.ssma.us/debian_media.html

follow that link, it covers a basic install geared towards making a media display box, but the directions should be good enough for you to at least get to a GUI desktop and use the apt-get system to get up and running.

if not you can find a CD to install from that link. as for a DVD installer, i have not seen one for Debian, but that does not mean one does not exsist.

that is my currently sources list for sarge, you would be better off using this one then the one i have on my site as it is a bit old.

I have A very basic Debian GUI and can use most options so above website was not much of a help
sorry.

offtopic question: why do you mix testing / sarge / unstable in your sources file??

simple, testing and sarge used to be one and the same, i prefer the testing bed vs stable, and do not particually like the unstable vs.

the 2 lines for unstable are for the "##### LiVES linux video editor" and that only comes with unstable for that editor. that is not a debian repository, but a LiVES repository. the only other unstable line in that list is commented out with the #. it is not used, but is left in IF i need/want to grab anything from that repository, all i need do is remove the #, apt-get update, and i can pull from that repository.

it is not the cleanest sources.list, but it keeps my game box running very nice and smooth for the most part.

but sarge and testing are not the same anymore, so you are mixing stable (sarge) and testing (etch)!... or can you tell the sources file to only use stable (sarge) for certain packages only?

If you don't have apt-get, you probably didn't either install Debian completely, or an error occured during the install leaving you with less than you should have. I'd suggest grabbing a fresh copy of Debian off of the website and reinstall; that is, if you didn't install it that way the first time. Maybe if you have dpkg installed you could download and install a .deb package installer for Xine or MPlayer using 'dpkg -i <package_name.deb>'

i hope you are not trying this:
#cd /etc/
#cd /apt/

i have not looked at the k3b site to see if they modified their repository so i left it alone.

under normal cercumstances it is a bad idea to mix stable with testing or any combination very very true. the bits i have left mixed in with testing are 3rd party repositories that are specific to 1 application each. i should probably remove the one for LiVES as it is a rather pathetic video editor compaired to Adobe Premier(sp?), but k3b works just fine, in fact burnted a bunch of CDs the other day.