Michael Fothergill wrote:
Dear Debianists,
Here is my apt sources.list file;
[...]
I want to add a line to it to get it to get software updates for Etch
from the web i.e. packages not security updates.....
[...]
It looks like you have installed a snapshot of Etch from CDROM, but you
now wish to follow Etch live. Comment out the "deb cdrom" lines in
/etc/apt/sources.list. (The package manager will no longer ask you to
insert the discs each time.) For packages from main, non-free and
contrib insert this line:
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
Only the "main" repository contains software that complies with the
Debian Free Software Guidelines. For unofficial multimedia packages
insert this line:
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main
For security updates insert this line:
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
Then update the repositories:
# aptitude update
(Note: If you have not been using Aptitude exclusively, check that it
does not want wrongly to remove packages (see
http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Aptitude_-_using_together_with_Synaptic_and_Apt-get).
Run
# aptitude install -sf
and if necessary fix with
# aptitude keep-all
)
Then upgrade your system:
# aptitude dist-upgrade
--
Chris.
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