On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Colin Bell wrote: > Okay, > > I have been trying to get a useful Debian unstallation up for about 5 > weeks now. I can get the base system installed but then where do I look > for new packages (the iso image contains next to nothing from what I can > tell)? I don't know what to set in the /etc/apt/sources.list file. I > probably have missed something in some of the documents but the > dselect-beginners guide doesn't tell you much of anything. I'm looking > to find xfree86-4.0.*, kde-2.2 and Mozilla or netscape. I guess I could > build the whole system from source but I figure there has to be a way or > all the debian developers are just wasting their time. > > When I state in the sources.list file that apt can look in the unstable > tree it seems to automatically tell itself to remove a whole bunch of > packages. I'm really getting bitter. I know I could just go to Redhat > and grab that and install it but this is a labour of love. I see the > power of apt and dselect I just don't know how to harness it. Maybe I'm > just supposed to grab single debs off the net, I don't know. > > Any help or direction (maybe there is a better dselect guide) would be > much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Colin
Hello, a first step: enable line wrapping in your browser please? Add these lines to sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib and if you want to converse your installation slowly to woody (testing), add these: deb ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free with ftp.nl.uu.net your favorite (nearby) Debian mirror. Run 'apt-get update' to get the new archives, and you have a lot of new packages to install. Greetz, Sebastiaan
