[TriLUG] Debian - adding contrib packages to sources.list

Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 11:51:02 EDT 2005


Realize, of course, that Greg Originally said he was doing this in
Ubuntu and mixing Ubuntu with Sarge sources is likely to cause
all kinds of trouble.

Cheers,
Tanner

On 7/11/05, Timothy A. Chagnon <tchagnon at futeki.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 11:24 -0400, Greg Brown wrote:
> > How should the text in sources.list be written to allow apt to grab
> > stuff from contrib?
> 
> Google: sarge sources.list
> 
> Here's a guy with his sarge sources.list with contrib in it.
> http://wiki.splitbrain.org/sources.list
> 
> Just add the word contrib to the end of repository lines.
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get install ant
> 
> Tim
> 
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