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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.
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..
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
More often, broken dependencies result from attempts to upgrade specific packages or the entire system. Unsurprisingly, they usually happen when using the experimental or unstable repositories, whose contents are still being tested. However, problems with packages also occur in testing, and even occasionally in stable. Mixing sources from different Debian-derived distributions can also cause problems. A package may need programs that are not available from the repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list, or a newer version of a program. Sometimes, a requested package or dependency conflicts with an already installed package, and the scripts included in the .deb do not yet have a suggested solution, such as holding back a package or removing the conflicting one.
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