On Sunday 18 September 2005 02:22 pm, lordSauron wrote: > okay. I've been happily screwing around with my sources.list file, > and I'm positively baffled. None of the amd64 servers appear to work > for me. Thus, I'm starting a whole thread for the discussion of what > looks to become a nice, big, fat, hairy, penguin-eating problem. > > My big question: what servers for both packages and sources to those > packages will work for me (your average Californian). I've been > working a little bit with netselect, and that was certainly > interesting for it to find what appeared to be some of the most > obscure servers in existance. So, I'm just going to paste the entire > contents of the sources.list file I have right now, and let people > yell at me for doing boneheaded things (if something wasn't working > or I didn't want it, I commented it out instead of deleting it - a > very good practise most of the time) > > === /etc/apt/sources.list === > # the main Debian packages. > # deb http://204.152.191.7/debian/ stable main contrib > # Uncomment the deb-src line if you want 'apt-get source' > # to work with most packages. > # deb-src http://204.152.191.7/debian/ stable main contrib > > deb [ftp|http]://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ > [sarge|sid] main contrib > deb-src [ftp|http]://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ > [sarge|sid] main contrib
I use this one, I don't know what the {ftp\http} is about, but mine works with http only in the source, and picking only one version, sid or sarge. Use a browser to see if the address's are online and what is available. > > deb [ftp|http]://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ > [sarge|sid] main contrib > deb-src [ftp|http]://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ > [sarge|sid] main contrib > > # deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/ [sarge|sid] main contrib > > # deb http://mirrors.geeks.org/debian/dists/sid/ contrib main > non-free > > # deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main > contrib non-free > # deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ unstable main > contrib non-free > > # the non-US Debian packages. > # deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main > contrib # Uncomment the deb-src line if you want 'apt-get source' > # to work with most non-US packages > # deb-src http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main > contrib === /etc/apt/sources.list === > > That's what I have right now. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > I'd like to stop running everything in i386 emulation mode - even > though the processor can natively do everything in x86, I'd still > like to use the extra 32 bits - just for the heck of it, if you will. > Plus I'd love to help develop for Linux, or even possibly help > compile packages or that sort of a thing once I can lock down the > situation and get eveything nice and happily 64-bit. > > Have a nice day! -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]