Debian Etch Repository Configuration

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Debian Etch Repository Configuration

1. Debian Etch Repositories
1.1 Official Debian Repositories
1.2 Debian Volatile
1.3 Debian Backports
1.4 Debian Cihar
1.5 Debian Multimedia

Debian Etch Repositories

I use a mixed repo, with stable being the default but should I need a package from testing or backports I can dip in as required. Installing a package from testing is simply a matter of..

 apt-get -t install packagename

...or packages from backports can be installed via...

 apt-get -t etch-backports install packagename

I also use the volatile repository so I can stay up to date with the latest anti virus and anti spam packages.

Official Debian Repositories

As root, do the following...

 echo 'APT::Default-Release "stable";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf

Now edit '/etc/apt/sources.list'

 vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Sample

 # Stable
 deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
 deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
   
 deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
 deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
  
 # Testing
 deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
 deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
    
 deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
 deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

Debian Volatile

 vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/volatile.list

Sample

 # Volatile - http://www.debian.org/volatile/
 deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main contrib  non-free
 deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main contrib non-free

Now get update the key for the volatile repository.

 wget -q http://www.debian.org/volatile/etch-volatile.asc -O- | apt-key add -

Debian Backports

 vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list

Sample

 # Backports - http://www.backports.org/
 deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
 deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free

Now get update the key for the backports repository.

 wget -q http://backports.org/debian/archive.key -O- | apt-key add -

Debian Cihar

I really only use this repo to get at a newer ejabberd version and the Python AIM transport.

 vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cihar.list

Sample

 # Cihar - http://debian.cihar.com/
 deb http://debian.cihar.com/ unstable main contrib non-free
 deb-src http://debian.cihar.com/ unstable main contrib non-free

Now get update the key for the Cihar repository.

 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key E64A2AA53714DD6A && gpg -a --export E64A2AA53714DD6A | apt-key add -

Debian Multimedia

Sometimes I use Debian to build and/or test various multimedia applications, such as MythTV or SlimServer. During such time, the Debian Multimedia repository is invaluable.

 echo 'deb http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com/ stable main
 deb-src http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com/ stable main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/multimedia.list

Update the repositories

 apt-get update

Now get update the key for the multimedia repository.

 apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring

References

$Id: DebianEtchRepositoryConfiguration,v 1.16 2008/01/04 11:01:04 martin Exp $

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