[SLUG] Debian and mozilla!

[Adams, Jamie]

> I can see I'll have to do something similar until I find out 
> how I can install packages which are not included in the 
> distro's disk's. 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Al

Hi Al,

Adding other sources to download from is pretty straight foreword. There
is a program that will do it all for you.

Run 'apt-get install netselect' run it and it will search through the
whole list of mirrors to find the fastest (and hopefully the closest)
mirror for you. It will create a sources.list file in your current
directory, just copy this over the one in '/etc/apt/'.

The other way to do it is to head over to www.debian.org/mirrors/ and
choose one which is near you. You then put it in your sources.list
manually following the example syntax:

     deb http://http.us.debian.org/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 stable/updates main contrib non-free

After this just run 'apt-get update' to fetch a list of updated
packages, then 'apt-get upgrade' to install them. It can take quite a
while the first time as the files on the cd are pretty old!

Hope this helps.
Jamie

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