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Where can I find a list of repositories? There's one in my distro (Debian
Etch 4 something) at York U in Canada and it isn't working. There's no such.

On Sat, 10 May 2008, Steve Turner wrote:

> Where can I find a list of repositories? There's one in my distro (Debian
> Etch 4 something) at York U in Canada and it isn't working. There's no such.
>
>
>
Have you gone to the obvious, www.debian.org (I guessed, but that's the
one) and looked at the link about downloading it? You have to go through
a few links, but eventually you find the list of mirrors. One is bound
to work, and the thing is to find one underused rather than necessarily
closest to you. So if you're downloading in the middle of the night,
find one in a timezone where it's the middle of the night, so fewer
people will be accessing it. On the other hand, if you download in
the daytime, you'd want to find one that is located where it's the middle
of the night, again under the assumption that it will be less used in
the middle of the night. That may not apply, since there may be
others using that server for the same reason.

Note there may be limits on how many users can download at a given
time, so a server that "isn't working" may simply be in use by
enough people that it won't accept more users at that time.

And before that debian site gets to the list of mirrors, they warn
you of other methods that may be better, and certainly will put
less of a load on the servers.

Of course, that's assuming you are talking about debian, which isn't
completely certain from your message. But it applies to any distribution,
go to their webpage (and if you don't know it, do a websearch) and
virtually all of them will tell you how you can get the distribution.

Michael

Steve Turner <stevezygote@noway.com>:
> Where can I find a list of repositories? There's one in my distro (Debian
> Etch 4 something) at York U in Canada and it isn't working. There's no such.

I like rafal.ca. /etc/apt/sources.list (for stable/etch):

deb http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca/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

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main


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Thank you!

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> Steve Turner <stevezygote@noway.com>:
>> Where can I find a list of repositories? There's one in my distro
>> (Debian
>> Etch 4 something) at York U in Canada and it isn't working. There's no
>> such.
>
> I like rafal.ca. /etc/apt/sources.list (for stable/etch):
>
> deb http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca/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
>
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
>
>
> --
> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
> (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292
> - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me.