stupid knoppix/debian question
C M Reinehr
cmrNO
Mon May 17 11:49:54 PDT 2004
You might also be interested in a small program called netselect-apt. It's
a bash script, actually. It's a great help in determining which are the
fastest mirrors for your location. There's not any help available, but
it's pretty simple. You can figure it out by reading the manual on
netselect & taking a look at the code for netselect-apt.
Cheers!
cmr
Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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> C M Reinehr shocked and awed us all by speaking:
>> I had to refresh my memory by taking a quick look at the sources.list
file
>> from Knoppix 3.2 and it looks as if it's pretty complete. The mirrors
>> included are the "official" Debian mirrors, but there are, probably,
over
>> a hundred other mirrors worldwide. Check out:
http://www.debian.org/mirror/
>>
>> The security mirrors are, perhaps, the most important mirrors to include
>> in your sources.list. Then, the standard debian mirrors. After that,
it's
>> a matter of including mirrors for applications for which you have a
>> specific interest, which are not included in the standard mirrors, i.e.,
>> Java: deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian testing main non-free
>>
>> Hope this helps. I'm just learning my way around apt & dpkg, myself.
>
> it do indeed. thanks
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