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10-07-2005, 02:48 PM
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Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Tierra Firma, Earth
Distribution: Debian of course...
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Help with Synaptic Package Manager REPOSITORY/apt-get nvidia pkgs
Howdy folks.
SPM complains every time I launch it that it can't find the packages from my cdrom. OK. I'll just disable those 3 options (file:///cdrom, deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a_Sarge_-Official i386 Binary-1(20050607)]/ unstable contrib main, and ...Binary-2...). Now it only has this listed as enabled:
"_htp://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free_"
I may have edited in the non-free...don't remember.
Anyway, WHERE ELSE should I be getting my packages? I've tried this week for days with some measure of success/failure to add to it....
What's in YOUR repository? HOW is a person to know to add to it? I'd love to obtain the need ed Nvidia 'module-assistant' and 'nvidia-kernel-common' via SPM. I tried 'apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common module-assistant' but neither by SPM or root-terminal can it locate them. WTF am I doing wrong? Thx for your input.
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10-07-2005, 03:10 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2005
Distribution: Ubuntu Dapper
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Try adding something like this to your /etc/apt/sources.list
I'll admit I'm a little bit of a debian newbie, but I used those repositories and these instructions and got the drivers working just fine.
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10-07-2005, 03:30 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Tierra Firma, Earth
Distribution: Debian of course...
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thx for the quick reply.
Yes, those instructions -- I was reading them just within the past two hours. Still don't understand them yet but I'll get there.
Rhetorical question: why doesn't the base-normal-regular Debian installation include a zillion repository sources?
I realize I can manually cd to, find, and edit the file. I admit I like point & click for most things.
Note to self: /etc/apt/sources.list -- the file to manually enter repository info.
Mmmm. Yes. There we go.
I added these:
deb _http://ftp.debian.org/
sarge
main contrib non-free
deb-src _http://ftp.debian.org/
sarge
main contrib non-free
deb _http://http.us.debian.org/debian/
stable
main contrib non-free
deb _http://http.us.debian.org/debian/
testings
main contrib non-free
(disabled)deb _http://http.us.debian.org/debian/
unstable
main contrib non-free
Awesome! The nvidia packages are all there now! And so is a bundle o' games (like Xarchon)(anyone remember this on the old 8bit Atari...?).
Thanks a bunch.
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10-07-2005, 03:36 PM
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Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Tierra Firma, Earth
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I found a list of someone's /var/apt/source.list on one of those links:
_http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/files/sources.list_
# Official Debian archives
deb _http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb _http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing testing/security-updates main contrib non-free
deb _http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb _http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb _http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src _http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
# Experimental
deb _http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main contrib
# KDE 3.4
deb _http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.0/ ./
deb _http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1/ ./
# K3B
deb _http://www.planet-moll.de/debian/ sarge main
# Randall Donald's prebuilt nvidia kernel modules
deb _http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia modules-unstable/i386/
# unofficial packages by Christian Marillat:
# acroread, mplayer & friends, realplayer, others.
# see _http://hpisi.nerim.net
deb _ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main
deb _ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main
deb _ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main
deb _ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ experimental main
# Kalyxo (_http://kalyxo.mornfall.net):
# Qt themes for GTK; KDE goodies for Debian.
#deb _http://archive.kalyxo.org/kalyxo/ staging main
#deb _http://archive.kalyxo.org/kalyxo/ experimental main
#deb _http://62.104.23.254/kalyxo/ staging main
#deb _http://62.104.23.254/kalyxo/ experimental main
# bootsplash themes
# see _www.bootsplash.de
deb _http://debian.bootsplash.de unstable main
# Matthias Ulrich: gpgsm, brings S/MIME support to KMail
#deb _http://smurf.noris.de/code/debian/ experimental smurf
# Real Time custom repository: PwManager
#deb _ftp://ftp.real-time.com/linux/real-time unstable custom
# another mplayer source
#deb _http://debian.kcore.org/ ./
# backports, sideports, almost-official packages
#deb _http://debian.jones.dk/ sarge misc
#deb _http://debian.jones.dk/ sid misc
# NuFW
#deb _http://www.nufw.org/debian/ unstable/
# TeX Live: _http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html
deb _http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ pool/
NICE. Maybe I will just manually edit my sources.list ....
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10-07-2005, 04:27 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Tierra Firma, Earth
Distribution: Debian of course...
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those _http://http.us.debian_ sites didn't work.
I changed them to read:
_http://ftp.debian.org/debian
stable (also testing & unstable)
main contrib non-free
These work great.
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