[H-GEN] Debian install newbie

[Michael Anthon]

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David Duffy wrote:
> I've just noticed that there is a line in /etc/apt/sources.list that
> mentions "unstable"! What's that all about? Should I just throw the
> apc CD's in the bin and get stable iso's to start off fresh with?
> A couple of web sites I've found warn of problems with mixing stable
> and unstable versions. Is this perhaps what's going wrong here?

Put these lines into /etc/apt/sources.list

> deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://public.planetmirror.com.au/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://public.planetmirror.com.au/pub/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

Maybe use mirror.aarnet if you get a better connection to it.  3.0r1 is 
the stable branch and should work well enough for an initial play 
around.  If you want cool new stuff and later versions of things you 
would use unstable.

Edit the sources.list as above and run 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get 
install apache' and it should fix itself.  If you want to try out 
unstable instead change the stable to unstable in sources.list and then 
run 'apt-get update' followed by 'apt-get dist-upgrade' adn then sit 
back and wait... can take a while if you are dialup 8^).

Cheers,
Michael

P.S.  If you want more help, the boys in #linuxaus on irc.linux.org.au 
are quite abusive but generally helpful to debian newbies.


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