You can use Debian mirrors with Mepis. David the H. is probably right, the Debian servers are sometimes slow and that is likely your problem. You can generate a new list of servers using "apt-spy" to get the fastest servers in your area. Just go to
http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/poo...3.1-8_i386.deb To download it and install with:
Code:
dpkg -i apt-spy*.deb
Backup your existing apt sources.list:
Code:
cd /etc/apt
mv sources.list sources.list.OLD
Then use apt-spy to generate a new one:
Code:
apt-spy update
apt-spy -d unstable -s US
Where "US" is the two letter country code near you. I use US. "unstable" is the branch of Debian you want with Mepis. It takes a while to run as it benchmarks a long list of servers, but in the end it will generate a sources.list file with the fastest server it finds. You can then run:
Code:
apt-get update
apt-get install <your favorite package>
You may also want to edit the sources.list file that apt-spy generates. It only has a listing for the "main" part of Debian, but you may want to add "contrib" and "non-free". It also will only give you Debian unstable packages, you may want to also list the "testing" branch as an option. Also, Mepis comes with a sources.list file that has sources for mplayer and other multimedia stuff. You'll probably want that as well. Look at you original sources.list file as a guide to editing the one generated by apt-spy.
