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On Oct 4, 2014, at 5:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 03 oct 14, 22:17:42, Maureen L Thomas wrote: >> On 10/03/2014 03:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> >>> It's important you attach them since your mailer seems to be a little >>> bit too helpful in formating your mails and it's important to for us to >>> see the same files as apt sees them. >> >> I tried this earlier and apparently it didn't go through. Here are the >> attached files. I have an empty sources.list.d directory but there is >> nothing in it. TY > > Assuming your mailer didn't interfere (again) your sources.list is messed up. > Comments inline: > >> # >> >> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.6.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 >> 20140712-13:02]/ wheezy contrib main >> >> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.6.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 >> 20140712-13:02]/ wheezy contrib main >> >> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.6.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-2 >> 20140712-13:02]/ wheezy contrib main >> >> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.6.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-3 >> 20140712-13:02]/ wheezy contrib main >> >> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.6.0 Update DVD 20140712: i386 DVD 1]/ wheezy >> contrib main non-free > > The cdrom entries are commented out, probably not a bad idea if you have good > internet connectivity. > >> deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates http://security.debian.org/ >> wheezy/updates non-free deb-src contrib main >> deb-src ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ >> wheezy/updates http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates non-free deb-src >> contrib main > > These two lines are messed up and you probably don't need deb-src line (do you > compile Debian packages?), so replace them with: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free > > (all in one line) > >> # wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile' >> # A network mirror was not selected during install. The following entries >> # are provided as examples, but you should amend them as appropriate >> # for your mirror of choice. >> # >> # deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free >> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main >> deb ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ >> wheezy-updates contrib deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates >> main contrib non-free >> deb-src ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ >> wheezy-updates contrib deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates >> main contrib non-free >> # deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free > > Instead of trying to fix the above I suggest you just remove everything and > add > these two lines: > > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > > (.net is not a typo) > > The file sources.list.save you should completely ignore, it's probably > some backup created by a program you used to change your sources. > > Here's everything again, with some comments to explain what each line > does: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > # This is the security archive for the wheezy release. Every wheezy > # system should have it and update/upgrade regularly from it. > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free > > # This is the 'updates' archive, for packages that most probably will > # be included in the next point release and some special packages that > # need more frequent updates to be useful > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free > > # This is the regular archive containing the packages of the latest > # Debian stable release (including all point releases). > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I had a similar problem recently. Daxko on this list recommended installing netselect and netselect-apt, which will select the fastest mirror and generate a sources.list file for you. I don't think the syntax of mine was off, I believe I was attempting to use an outdated mirror. 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