[Gllug] Debian question from a RH user

[John Winters]

Ken Smith wrote:
> John Winters wrote:
[snip]
>> What did it contain before and what did you change it to?
[snip]
> Here's the sources list
> 
> #
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 
> 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main
> 
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 
> 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main
> 
> 
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian etch main <--------------I added 
> this line
> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

Hmmm.  It's a long time since I installed Debian from anything other
than a netinstall CD or a network boot, but ISTR that if you install
from a full CD (as seems to have happened here) the installation process
asks you whether or not you want to configure a network source for other
packages.  It seems that whoever set up this system said, "no".

John
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