[SGVLUG] debian and aptitude and adjusting sources.list

[David Lawyer]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:02:26AM -0400, Robert Leyva wrote:
> I wanted to install the eclipse package to my debian workstation.
> 
[snip] 
> Did a little googling and searching, and finally realized that I needed to
> edit my /etc/apt/sources.list and comment out the lines relating to
> packages  from cdrom.
> 
> The solution became:
> robert at pip:/etc/apt$ cat sources.list
> #
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST
> Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main
> 
> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST
> Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main
> 
Below you are forcing the use of the etch release.  To get more
up-to-date stuff (like me) substitute testing for etch.  Sometimes
testing has fixed bugs and in other cases there are more bugs in
testing.  But if you report the bugs, you are contributing to Linux.

> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
> robert at pip:/etc/apt$
			David Lawyer