On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 09:20:12PM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 04:50:56PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > Where can I find a list of URLs for Synaptic repositories such as that > > > displayed by the installer? > > > > > > I need to switch from a local Approx repository to one of the > > > publically-accessible repositories such as maintained by debian.org. > > > > Regardless of what interface you are using (apt, apt-get, > > aptitude, synaptic...) the repos are defined in > > /etc/apt/sources.list > > and > > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* > > > > -dsr- > > But those contain only the repositories selected for the installation. >
They also point either to a content distribution network - deb.debian.org or to a country mirror - say ftp.uk.debian.org Mirrors contain all the packages so they're just an apt / synaptic update away. That doesn't necessarily apply for third party packages https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian Hope this helps, Andy Cater
