Configuring apt sources: Was: Mirror not

2023-01-01 Thread Tim Woodall
Am I the only person who does this? Usually I'm a late adopter! On Sun, 1 Jan 2023, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: What repo's do you have configured? cat /etc/apt/sources.list $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list $ Of course I have: $ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d buster-local.sources buster-main.sour

Re: Configuring APT to use localhost port as a proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Niall Donegan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Pogrebennyk wrote: > Hello, > > I have a ssh tunnel which connects localhost:3128 to remote proxy. I > have tried setting environment variables to localhost:3128 (and > http://localhost:3128) and modifying apt.conf as well, but apt tries to > f

Re: Configuring APT to use localhost port as a proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Andrew Pogrebennyk
Hello, Niall Donegan wrote: > Create a file in /etc/apt called apt.conf and put the following line in: > Acquire::http::Proxy "http://localhost:3128"; I tried doing so before, but I must have forgotten to restart aptitude that time. And after restart it work well. Thanks a lot! Ryan Nowakowski w

Re: Configuring APT to use localhost port as a proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:03:08PM +0300, Andrew Pogrebennyk wrote: > Hello, > > I have a ssh tunnel which connects localhost:3128 to remote proxy. I > have tried setting environment variables to localhost:3128 (and > http://localhost:3128) and modifying apt.conf as well, but apt tries to > fetch

Configuring APT to use localhost port as a proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Andrew Pogrebennyk
Hello, I have a ssh tunnel which connects localhost:3128 to remote proxy. I have tried setting environment variables to localhost:3128 (and http://localhost:3128) and modifying apt.conf as well, but apt tries to fetch files from 3128:80 :/ What would you suggest? Please add cc to the address I'm

Configuring apt-build.

2005-10-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear list, I am trying to use apt-build to compile a few software for my machine. The problem is that the configuration file at /etc/apt/apt-build.conf seems to get ignored; for options from there aren't used. From the 'net, I have learnt and have used the following: build-dir = /var/cache/apt-bu

Re: Configuring APT

2004-02-01 Thread Stefan Baums
>Package: * >Pin: release a=testing >Pin-Priority: 1001 > >Package: * >Pin: release a=unstable >Pin-Priority: 400 > >Package: * >Pin: release a=stable >Pin-Priority: 300 On further reflection I realised that those numbers will only do what I want (procession f

Re: Configuring APT

2004-01-31 Thread Stefan Baums
> Read the apt_preferences(5) man page, I did, but obviously not closely enough. > set the pin for unstable to 100 < P <=500. Done. However, after reading the man page I believe that I also need to set testing to P > 1000 in order to enable downgrading when the unstable or third-party package a

Re: Configuring APT

2004-01-31 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:55:26PM -0800, Stefan Baums said > Dear list, > > I would like to configure APT to do the following: > >- install requested and update installed packages from > repository X (unstable or third-party) for as long as those > packages are not available in rep

Configuring APT

2004-01-31 Thread Stefan Baums
Dear list, I would like to configure APT to do the following: - install requested and update installed packages from repository X (unstable or third-party) for as long as those packages are not available in repository Y (testing or stable) - automatically switch to updating

Re: Installation ~ configuring apt-get sources.list for cdrom

1999-08-04 Thread Walter Logeman
Jocke Nice to get the encouragment... > dselect works just fine if you just have 2.1 cds. I do and I must have installed the basics on the HDD, but still stuck there. > enter the [A]ccess and choose multi_cd Done > then run [U]pdate for each cd (actually the last one) > if you

Re: Installation ~ configuring apt-get sources.list for cdrom

1999-08-04 Thread Walter Logeman
Jocke, Thanks for the reply... > in /etc/apt/sources.list add the following lines > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US I forgot to mention that I am not yet connected with ppp, so i presume this won't

Installation ~ configuring apt-get sources.list for cdrom

1999-08-04 Thread Walter Logeman
I am in the process of installing Debian 2.1 for the first time. I have gone through the process where my machine now boots into Linux from the floppy and I can flounder around enough to see that I have heaps of directories and files and am playing around with commands, learning as i go. I wonder