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  Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list rlharris@oplink.net - 2016-01-13 19:40 +0100
    Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-01-13 21:40 +0100
      Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 05:20 +0100
        Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-01-14 14:30 +0100
    Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2016-01-15 02:50 +0100

#162995 — Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

On Wed, January 13, 2016 12:31 pm, Amr Saber wrote:
> The problem is that the sources.list file was accidentally deleted
> and I can't find any version of it online

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

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#162999

On Wed 13 Jan 2016 at 12:36:33 -0600, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:

> On Wed, January 13, 2016 12:31 pm, Amr Saber wrote:
> > The problem is that the sources.list file was accidentally deleted
> > and I can't find any version of it online
> 
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib

Why not suggest a mirror which would be suitable for anyone, no matter
what their location in the world is?

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib

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#163013

On 01/14/2016 02:08 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 13 Jan 2016 at 12:36:33 -0600, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
>
>> On Wed, January 13, 2016 12:31 pm, Amr Saber wrote:
>>> The problem is that the sources.list file was accidentally deleted
>>> and I can't find any version of it online
>>
>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
>> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
>
> Why not suggest a mirror which would be suitable for anyone, no matter
> what their location in the world is?
>
> deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib

  I tried the redirector a while ago, but one mirror kept returning 403,
  necessitating reruns of apt(itude).  So, I switched to specific
  mirrors after that.  I haven't revisited using the redirector since
  then.

-- 
Udyant Wig
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#163026

On Thu 14 Jan 2016 at 09:39:26 +0530, Udyant Wig wrote:

> On 01/14/2016 02:08 AM, Brian wrote:
> > On Wed 13 Jan 2016 at 12:36:33 -0600, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, January 13, 2016 12:31 pm, Amr Saber wrote:
> >>> The problem is that the sources.list file was accidentally deleted
> >>> and I can't find any version of it online
> >>
> >> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
> >> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
> >
> > Why not suggest a mirror which would be suitable for anyone, no matter
> > what their location in the world is?
> >
> > deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
> > deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
> 
>   I tried the redirector a while ago, but one mirror kept returning 403,
>   necessitating reruns of apt(itude).  So, I switched to specific
>   mirrors after that.  I haven't revisited using the redirector since
>   then.

Such (not always transient) errors are not unknown but the redirector
cannot turn a malfunctioning mirror into a well-behaved one. The place
to report such an issue is mirrors@lists.debian.org.

I wonder what the reaction would have been to a suggestion for Amr Saber
to use

  deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib ?

httpredir.debian.org/debian/ mitigates the need to think about and
investigate which specific mirror to choose. Of course both can be put
in sources.list.

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#163075

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:36:33PM -0600, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> On Wed, January 13, 2016 12:31 pm, Amr Saber wrote:
> > The problem is that the sources.list file was accidentally deleted
> > and I can't find any version of it online
> 
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

Even better:

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

99.9% of Debian users will never need the deb-src entries.

-- 
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X

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