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Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

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On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 08:17:42 +1300 Chris Bannister
<cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 06:18:09PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:18 +0200
> > Amr Saber <amr.m.saber.mail@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi there,
> > > While I was configuring some thing in the sources.list file as
> > > apt-get couldn't get any package I wanted or asked for (I double
> > > checked the spelling for each package) and it just said package
> > > not found ... any way, The problem is that the sources.list file
> > > was accidentally deleted and I can't find any version of it
> > > online and ofcourse the apt-get is no longer working at all
> > 
> > Assuming you're running stable,
> > 
> > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable main
> > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable-updates main
> > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable-proposed-updates main
> > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable-backports main
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
> > 
> > is the complete setup. 
> 
> It's not complete, it's missing contrib and non-free.
> 

Correction: complete *official* setup anyway. Unless Debian has dropped
any pretence of contrib and non-free being unofficial.

I don't recommend non-free software to anyone as a matter of principle.

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Problem with apt-get and sources.list Amr Saber <amr.m.saber.mail@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 19:40 +0100
  Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2016-01-13 22:20 +0100
    Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Jose Martinez <jomartinez812@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 22:20 +0100
  Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-01-14 00:30 +0100
    Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 00:40 +0100
      Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Amr Saber <amr.m.saber.mail@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 00:50 +0100
      Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Jose Martinez <jomartinez812@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 01:10 +0100
        Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2016-01-14 01:20 +0100
          Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 02:10 +0100
          Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Jose Martinez <jomartinez812@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 02:40 +0100
  Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-01-14 19:50 +0100
    Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-01-14 20:10 +0100
      Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-01-15 10:00 +0100
        Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-01-15 20:40 +0100
          Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-01-21 03:50 +0100
            Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-01-21 12:00 +0100
    Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2016-01-15 20:20 +0100
      Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-01-21 03:50 +0100
        Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2016-01-21 11:20 +0100
          Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-01-21 12:10 +0100
            Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-01-21 13:10 +0100

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