On Thu 14 Jan 2016 at 18:18:09 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:18 +0200 > Amr Saber <amr.m.saber.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > While I was configuring some thing in the sources.list file as apt-get > > couldn't get any package I wanted or asked for (I double checked the > > spelling for each package) and it just said package not found ... > > any way, The problem is that the sources.list file was accidentally > > deleted and I can't find any version of it online and ofcourse the > > apt-get is no longer working at all > > Assuming you're running stable, > > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable main > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable-updates main > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable-proposed-updates main > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable-backports main > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > is the complete setup. For testing, just remove backports and replace > 'stable' with 'testing'.
http.debian.net/debian/ is exactly the same as httpredir.debian.org/debian/ The .org indicates it is an official, supported mirror but it makes no difference when updating and downloading. The former gets you to the latter.
