Repository Suggestion

[DataMan]

Given the ongoing discussion traffic on the various repositories, thought it might be a good idea if someone in the "know" posted all of the LMDE repositories available and a very short description of their intent, limitations etc. This consolidated post might be elevated to a stickie status.

I'm not in the know so I'll defer this to the LMDE Grand Masters .

-DataMan

[Gerd50]

I'm surely not a LMDE Grand Master but can do it. I wrote a german article (Die sources.list in der Praxis - The sources.list in practise), must only translate the descriptions.

http://www.linuxmintusers.de/index.php? ... Fstrong.3E

[craigevil]

# LMDE - Linux Mint Debian http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1527
# List of packages: http://packages.linuxmint.com/list.php?release=Debian
# Secure APT - apt-get install linuxmint-keyring
# Default LMDE repositories
# deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport romeo
# Introducing Update Packs in Linux Mint Debian - http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1781
# "Latest” update pack repo
# deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
# “Incoming” update pack repo
# deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming testing main contrib non-free

# Debian Multimedia Packages - http://debian-multimedia.org/ Use whichever branch of Debian you are following, default would be Testing/wheezy.
# DMM Mirrors http://debian-multimedia.org/debian-m.php
# DMM list of mirrors using Google cache http://tinyurl.com/3aoalbl
# Secure apt: apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring
# deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free
#deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free
#deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main non-free

Actual Debian testing repos:
##################
## Debian Testing ##
##################
# Testing
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

# Testing Security http://secure-testing-master.debian.net/
#deb http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

If you want debian stable use:
##################
## Debian Stable ##
##################
#Stable
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
#Stable Sources
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

#Security Updates http://www.debian.org/security/
#deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

# Please note: The debian-volatile project has been discontinued with the Debian "Squeeze" release.
# See http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile ... 00000.html for details.
# Debian Volatile is now squeeze-updates
# Squeeze-updates
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free

# Debian Stable Backports
# For information visit - http://backports.debian.org/
# Secure apt: apt-get install debian-backports-keyring
#deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main contrib non-free

If you follow Debian sid:
####################
## Debian Unstable ##
####################
# Debian sid FAQ - http://wooledge.org/~greg/sidfaq.html
# There is no security, volatile or backports repo for unstable.
# Unstable Sid
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
# Unstable Sources
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

Feel free to use a mirror of your choice on the Debian repo.
Official Debian mirrors http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
Also at http://ftp.debian.org/debian/README.mirrors.txt

Debian info about sources.list
# SourcesList - Debian Wiki - http://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList
# UnofficialRepositories - Debian Wiki - http://wiki.debian.org/UnofficialRepositories
# Apt-Pinning for Beginners - http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
# aptitude user's manual - http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/pro ... de/doc/en/
# Apt - Debian Wiki - http://wiki.debian.org/Apt
# Aptitude - Debian Wiki - http://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude

Other useful info:
# Debian Sources List Generator - http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/
# smxi - unofficial Debian maintenance script http://smxi.org/site/install.htm
# Exoodles multimedia installer script http://tinyurl.com/2vjj3lp
# Grokking Debian GNU/Linux - https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... inux-3073/

[tdockery97]

Thanks for the repost of your giant sources list craigevil. I always have to go looking for it.