I have all 14 CDs for Debian 3.1 r0a and I have both DVDs, but there is no contrib or non-free included on these sets. I currently do not have a connection to the internet at home so I setup a http folder on my server that holds these CD sets. I did this so I can still use apt-get and not have to switch CD/DVDs all the time when installing new stuff. I noticed a lot of what I use is either contrib or non-free packages that arent on the CD/DVD sets. Where can I download every contrib and non-free package for the stable release of sarge (3.1 r0a) ? I want to add these packages to my server, but I dont want to have to manually download them one by one from a mirror site. I've searched around and found that a lot of people have compiled woody cd sets that include the non-free and contrib packages... so there has to be someone who has done the sarge, right?

Here's an article that may be of some help.

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/286



Peace V

Without bothering to read the posted article, I can tell you that non-free has been done away with in Sarge.

could you elaborate?

Thanks for the link - I never knew there was a program for this type of thing. I'll take a look at it and let ya know how it went. One thing, it still doesnt tell me how to get ahold of all the contrib & main files bundled together.

No, I can't, I have too much egg on my face.

I was thinking of non-US, not non-free:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl....html#s-non-us

Sorry!

Thanks again for that link! It's a really nice program and it works brilliantly for what I am doing

I still have questions about getting the contrib & non-free .deb package files though. I started a new thread for this:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=385499