Adding repositories in Debian

[oakdeveloper]

Hi,

I have a minimal installation of Debian Lenny. I want to install additional software. When I tried

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apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment gdm

as root user, I got an error message saying that the package could not be found. I think the problem is that I haven't added the repositories. What are the repositories I should add to my sources.list file? Where can I find the list of repositories?

Thanks & Regards,
Babu

[craigevil]

paste your /etc/apt/sources.list

Then take a look at the link in my signature.

[aj123]

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Comment out any cdrom entries at the top with #. Uncomment any section for stable updates at the top.

Add (you can substitute a local mirror):

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main
or
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

(main, contrib, non-free are different repos for different packages)

apt-get update
apt-get safe-upgrade
apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment gdm