Debian repositories

[.Froot.]

I installed Debian this afternoon via a netinstall. Could someone running Debian maybe post their repositories? Obiously biased towards local internet. I find that some of the local mirrors do not respond.

 

[koffiejunkie]

I have the exact details anymore, but ftp.sun.ac.za have both debian and debian-multimedia.org under pub/mirrors. ftp.up.ac.za has one that used to be very reliable, with quite a lot of stuff. IS also has a usually outdated and incomplete mirror.

 

[.Froot.]

I managed to get a decent compromise between Tuks and mirror.ac.za, where I only get the annoying GPG key error (still compiles successfully). So that works fine. Now only to get the vodafone package (works on Fedora, Ubuntu and OpenSuse) working.
I get the following error:

 Failed to load application: No module named vmc.common.startup)

I installed the .deb package that works on Ubuntu, which is simply a customised and edited version of Debian... yet it doesn't work

 

[koffiejunkie]

I'm afraid I can't help you with that one. Back in the day I just used my ppp scripts to connect with whatever I got to play with. The pharscape forums have information on most hardware. They also cook up the drivers there. The Globetrotter HSDPA card, for example, works like a normal hardware modem

 

[.Froot.]

I'm afraid I can't help you with that one. Back in the day I just used my ppp scripts to connect with whatever I got to play with. The pharscape forums have information on most hardware. They also cook up the drivers there. The Globetrotter HSDPA card, for example, works like a normal hardware modem

Never mind Debian, hey... thanks. I found 4.0r6 to be so full of bugs it's not even funny... Crashed continuously... and it lacked multiple packages when compared to let's say Ubuntu. It is also still stuck in KDE3 and the old Gnome....

 

[koffiejunkie]

Unstable? What are you running on? The only time I've had debian crash on me was with a dodgy network driver (old sk86_lin or something such - cr@p marvel card anyway)

You do realise that that release is a year and a half old? Have a look at Lenny instead. I'm not sure to what extent KDE4 is included, but I do see there are some KDE4 packages in the repositories. I suspect that it hasn't shown me those because I have 3.5 installed and Debian traditionally doesn't try to upgrade major versions, unless you tell it to.

 

[.Froot.]

Unstable? What are you running on? The only time I've had debian crash on me was with a dodgy network driver (old sk86_lin or something such - cr@p marvel card anyway)

You do realise that that release is a year and a half old? Have a look at Lenny instead. I'm not sure to what extent KDE4 is included, but I do see there are some KDE4 packages in the repositories. I suspect that it hasn't shown me those because I have 3.5 installed and Debian traditionally doesn't try to upgrade major versions, unless you tell it to.

I had 4.0r6 on. The newest release is 4.0 final, released on 23/12/08, but it's not available on the local mirrors yet (as of two days ago).

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r6 was released December 18th, 2008.

Running that on a Core 2 Duo HP laptop. I haven't had even remotely as many crashes on Mandriva/OSuse/Gentoo or Ubuntu.

 

[koffiejunkie]

I had 4.0r6 on. The newest release is 4.0 final, released on 23/12/08, but it's not available on the local mirrors yet (as of two days ago).

Doing an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade will take it to the same level.

Either ways, it's like any other distro (except Gentoo and Debian testing/unstable) - they don't update package versions. Those releases are just point releases, so that people doing have to start all the way back, but they only contain security/bug fixes. There's a release called "Etch and a half" or something like that, that has never versions of some things, mostly to support newer hardware.

But Lenny is heading for release any day now, it has much newer packages, and I haven't noticed many updates lately. Stable as a rock here.

 

[.Froot.]

Doing an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade will take it to the same level.

Either ways, it's like any other distro (except Gentoo and Debian testing/unstable) - they don't update package versions. Those releases are just point releases, so that people doing have to start all the way back, but they only contain security/bug fixes. There's a release called "Etch and a half" or something like that, that has never versions of some things, mostly to support newer hardware.

But Lenny is heading for release any day now, it has much newer packages, and I haven't noticed many updates lately. Stable as a rock here.

Thanks, will take a lookie. I've always had Linux+Vista running (Vista for the Novell client which does not run on Linux and some other non-Linux software (non Wine, etc supporting), but will rather use a VM for those and then run two versions of Linux.

 

[milomak]

My local repos

### SA Mirrors ###
deb http://debian.mirror.ac.za/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.mirror.ac.za/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.mirror.ac.za/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free

deb ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/debian/security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/debian/ftp.us.debian.org/ testing contrib main non-free
deb ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/debian/ftp.us.debian.org/ unstable contrib main non-free
deb ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/debian/ftp.us.debian.org/ stable contrib main non-free
deb ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/debian/ftp.us.debian.org/ experimental contrib main non-free

 

[.Froot.]

Thanks Milomak. I shall use those when I install debian again (might just be on a vm though but nevertheless), as I'm leaving my current setup be for now...

 

[milomak]

i use sid so i have no issue with having stable, testing and unstable available as repos. obviously if you choose stable or testin, i assume you will remove as necessary.