Debian sarge sources.list e apt-get, first steps
 

Hi guys!

Maybe my question is too simple (excuse me).

I've just completed the installation of Debian Sarge 3.1r0a (with kde) from a dvd disc.

I want that my distro remains sarge because I will use it as a mini-server (web,mail,mysql,php,ftp,samba and something else) and so I moreover need stability and security.

At this moment my sources.list contains just a reference to the dvd disc.

How can I add official repositries (updated and fast)?

Also repositries with non-gpl packets are good (I know this is out of "Debian philosophy" but they can be useful).

Ehm... after modifying sources.list, is it enough to run
apt-get update

to update everything to the last sarge-stable version?


Thank you very very much for any kind of suggestion!
:)

Add this in your /etc/apt/sources.list:

##############
### STABLE ###
##############
#Stable Sarge
deb ftp://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
#Stable Sarge Sources
deb-src ftp://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
#Security Updates Stable
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

And apt-get update after this to take into account this list
Then apt-get upgrade to upgrade

just a doubt
 

Thank you very very much!

Just a doubt::confused:

I thought that apt-get upgrade should be used to convert a stable-sarge to an unstable-testing... I want to stay with sarge-stable!

Last thing: what's the difference between

apt-get upgrade
and
apt-get -f dist-upgrade

Thanks again!

No, its apt-get dist-upgrade that is prefered when changing between release. See this: http://wiki.arslinux.com/Debian

apt-get -f , I've never used because was never needed and I don't like a stupid algorithm choosing for me.
If you will stay in sarge, I doubt you will have conflicts. Anyway aptitude has a better algorithm for resolving problems.

Thanks!
Thanks!

if you just keep your sources list as was posted above then you wont ever have packages other then from sarge. If you did an apt-get dist-upgrade this would bring tyour system completely uptodate with sarge so all packages that had updates for sarge available would be upgraded.

Thank you very much for your explanation!!!

if you type in a terminal man apt-get it will tell you all of the cmmands for apt-get and what they do.

Here is my sources.list

#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20050607)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)]/ unstable contrib main

##############
### STABLE ###
##############
#Stable Sarge
deb ftp://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
#Stable Sarge Sources
deb-src ftp://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

# FASTWEB
deb http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

#Security Updates Stable
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

Just one change I would make:I do this because at some point (currently estimated around Dec 2006) Debian will release a new stable version - Etch. So if you're tracking by the word "stable" your server would upgrade some packages to etch. I usually like to do dist-upgrades manually, so I'll track sarge until I'm confident etch has got a good review before dist-upgrading.

Thank you very much!

I modified my sources.list according to your suggestions (I also prefer to do dist upgrade manually).
Thanks!