[mdlug] Debian

[Robert J. Clay]

Jack,

On 2/1/07, jack freeman <freemancomputer at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I have debian installed on my system

    Which version?  Myself, I'm running both Debian Stable ("Sarge") &
Debian Testing ("Etch") on different systems...   (One is a Debian
Etch system running Xen, with two Sarge systems running as VMs...)


> but I am having a hard time installing new packages.

   In what way are you having a "hard time"?    And how are you trying
to install new packages?    How is your /etc/apt/sources.list set?

   For my Sarge systems at home, I run apt-proxy on one of my systems,
which maintains a partial mirror of all those packages that any of the
systems are using, & the rest of the Sarge systems just point to that
system in /etc/apt/sources.list.   The two Etch systems I have
running, are just pointing to a regular Debian repository on the 'net,
for the moment...    I also just use the command line tools for
updates;  specifically, aptitude...


-- 
Robert J. Clay
rjclay at gmail.com