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hpr1429 :: Debian sources.list

Personalize your Debian distro through the sources.list file

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Hosted by Honkeymagoo on 2014-01-23 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
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Honkeymagoo and Kevin Wisher discuss the Debian GNU Linux sources.list file, and the many ways it can be used to personalize your Debian distro

The site that gives most of the information about the sources.list file: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html

Mirror sites list: http://www.debian.org/mirror/list

A site that can help you make a sources.list file: http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/

2 good sites to learn about apt-pinning: http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html http://www.howtoforge.com/a-short-introduction-to-apt-pinning

The Debian multimedia repository: http://www.deb-multimedia.org/

Default sources.list file for US: 

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main

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