3.6 Recording Your Choice
There are over 75 Debian mirrors world-wide and over 7300 packages
available for unstable which you can browse at
http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/allpackages.html. Check
for a mirror near you by trying http://ftp.au.debian.org/
where you replace au with your country code.
If you don’t find one then stay with the master Debian site or check
for another mirror listed in
http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist. If you do find a
suitable mirror then edit /etc/apt/sources.list (as root
user) and add in the appropriate net address. For example, if you are
in Australia you might and want to install from the potato archive
then your /etc/apt/sources.list might look like:
(If you are familiar with Debian slink or earlier, you will notice that the format of the non-US entry changed starting with potato, and that it has disappeared since sarge.)
Finally, if you want to go the ``commercial’’ (and sometimes less hassle) CD-ROM distribution path a nice looking one based on Debian is Libranet.
The -, apt, setup command will run a simple interface to help
set up your /etc/apt/sources.list.
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