What seems to be the problem on Debian Repos?
 

Can someone please tell me what repository seems to work today? What website should I go to know the latest running repo?

What repo are you using? What release?
Checkout the sticky thread in the Debian forum.

I am using etch before. deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free

Where do I find that sticky thread? I mean is there a website dedicated for posting running repos. One that is stable and is not confusing. I tried www.apt-get.org but it seems that most of the repos that are posted have broken links. Please help.

Anything ftp://ftp.country.debian.org/debian or chech here

http://www.debian.org/mirror/list

Is there any forum or community where they could post any working repository? The packages I would want to install are gtkpod-aac, acidrip, tovid, avidemux. These packages couldn't be found on the repositories that I've tried. It's either their are dependencies. Can someone help me understand how to configure a solid repository. If you will search the internet there are more than a hundred of them. But I think one repo will go well with the other. But I can't seem to know what repos to choose from. Where would I know. THe link above is just the general mirror site. I'm totally new into this. So can someone provide me their sources.list and tell me how they have arrive of having those repositories. And in what site did they see those things. Thanks alot..

avidemux:

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sid main

tovid:

deb http://packages.kirya.net/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

I think acidrip is somewhere in those either - adjust to your distro.
Try a google search or a search here for 'sources.list debian' or something like that.
External sources a a touchy subject because you never know in advance what you end up with.
For about the same functionality like tovid you could also try KmPg2 - it's somewhere on kde-apps.org

Yes. www.debian.org has a listing of mirrors that they maintain. Another option is to use netselect and/or netselect-apt which can be used to download the list of mirrors and ping them to find out which one will have the least amount of latency (which is generally a pretty good indication of what sort of download performance you'll get from difference sites. There are of course other variables that have an effect, but this will give at least somewhat of a general idea.). Refer to the apt-howto maintained at www.debian.org for more information about how to do this, as well as information about mirrors and package management.

Hi crashmeister,

I tried both the repository you suggested and it resulted to:

Get:1 http://packages.kirya.net unstable Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://debian.multimedia.org sid Release.gpg
Ign http://debian.multimedia.org sid Release
Get:2 http://packages.kirya.net unstable Release [2263B]
Ign http://packages.kirya.net unstable Release
Ign http://debian.multimedia.org sid/main Packages
Get:3 http://packages.kirya.net unstable/main Packages [3216B]
Err http://debian.multimedia.org sid/main Packages
302 Moved Temporarily
Get:4 http://packages.kirya.net unstable/contrib Packages [14B]
Get:5 http://packages.kirya.net unstable/non-free Packages [1377B]
Fetched 7059B in 11s (590B/s)
Failed to fetch http://debian.multimedia.org/dists/s...86/Packages.gz 302 Moved Temporarily
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://packages.kirya.net unstable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EEFB43B2FBABB737
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

It seems that most repositories aren't working on me...

You need the gpg key for the debian-multimedi.org repo.

FAQ::Multimedia Debian Packages The thread I mentioned is:
Post your source.list - LinuxQuestions.org
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=330913

cragevil,

The signatures worked. Thanks a lot. I was able to download acidrip and gtkpod-aac. Anyway, is etch repo still working. Does it mean I also have to download gpgs for every repository?

If you are running Etch and plan to stick with it you should't be using UNSTABLE repos in your Apt sources list...

Sarge = Stable

Etch = Testing

Sid = Unstable

You should NEVER mix the 3 repositories unless you know exactly what you are doing, (see apt-pinning) else something will break...

What if the package is included in the other repo? Does it mean sarge, sid and etch have the same packages? I wanted to install mjpegtools but it's not included on the repos that I am currently using.

The Debian package of non-free/mjpegtools is not in ANY of the official Debian repositories.
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/s...ll&release=all

Don't forget to add the GPG key... http://www.debian-multimedia.org/faq.html

apt-get update
apt-get install mjpegtools

you should be good to go !!

farslayer,

Thanks. I was able to download mjpegtools now. I am kinda curious why you shouldn't mix the repos. I mean, they are just packages right? How do you know from where repository you'll be getting the packages? I am sorry for my ignorance but can you please give me an idea why. And if possible, please teach me how to find the right repo for the package. Can you please post your sources.list? Thanks.

The main problem with mixing Stable, testing and unstable repos comes from having broken dependencies or pulling in newer libraries.

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