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Hey guys, I need some quick (knock on wood) help. I've been going by the unofficial ubuntu 5.04 starter guide with my install. My problem (I believe) is with the file /etc/apt/sources.list . I have edited my file like the sample they give. When I try to apt-get many files cannot be found and I recieve errors "could not stat some package source". Would someone please post their sources.list file that has been confirmed to work and is practicall so I can copy and paste it? Thanks.
deb http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
deb-src http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted
deb-src http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
deb-src http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe
This one is from Breezy, but if you haven't found anyone else, try it. If I'm not a 100 percent loose, it might work.
as long as they change the word breezy to hoary it should work on hoary or other way around. also im not real sure what country se is but if you in usa good thing to do would be to change the letters se to us or if in the uk change it to uk. mainly that should help the download speeds to be closer to your country. good luck also after putting in new sources dont forget to sudo apt-get update
right: on the repositories, IGNORE the backports, and change 'hoary' to 'breezy'. It's one of the few items on the guide thats out of date. Breezy is not using backports at the moment, so you should not have them in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Just add the universe and multiverse, changing the words hoary for breezy.
now something im not sure about is the extras repo i heard it was unchanged and still worked but either way it is concidered a backport so im not sure if it is or not. i dont have extras in my sources list and if i find out extras work in breezy than i will put it back if anyone knows please let me know
Wow...changed hoary to breezy and what a difference. I was affraid to do so because breezy is only a beta version. I take it I won't mess anything up as long as I don't do a dist-upgrade yet? w00t w00t
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