Please check a Debian noobs sources.list

[kansasnoob]

I think I'm nearly OK here but I've been swimming downstream in Ubuntu and several other Debian based noob friendly distros for about 2 years and thought it was time to really get my feet wet

I just installed Squeeze (went flawlessly too) and following two guides I've edited my sources.list thus:

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 20100217-22:18]/ squeeze main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 20100217-22:18]/ squeeze main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free

I managed to get everything working as I like, that is I installed flashplayer-mozilla, icedtea6-plugin, libdvdcss2, openjdk-6-jre, w32codecs, gphoto2, mozilla-plugin-vlc, nautilus-gksu, and sensors-applet and all seems to be working well other than having a red X telling me I have no network connection even though I do (I hope that's just a development issue since Squeeze is still in testing). Oh and I see gufw doesn't seem to work so I just set up ufw from cli.

But regarding my sources.list when I run apt-get update I think all looks fine unless I'm missing something:

root@lance-desktop:/home/lance# apt-get update
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze Release.gpg
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release
Hit http://deb.opera.com stable Release.gpg
Ign http://deb.opera.com stable/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze Release
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://deb.opera.com stable Release
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free Sources
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://deb.opera.com stable/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://deb.opera.com stable/non-free Packages
Ign http://deb.opera.com stable/non-free Packages
Hit http://deb.opera.com stable/non-free Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Sources/DiffIndex
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/contrib Packages/DiffIndex [2,023B]
Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/non-free Packages/DiffIndex [2,023B]
Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/contrib Sources/DiffIndex [2,023B]
Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/non-free Sources/DiffIndex [2,023B]
Fetched 8,092B in 44s (184B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

But every time I open Synaptic I get this warning:

W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_squeeze_main_binary-i386_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_squeeze_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages)

Suffice it to say that no warning should be ignored

But I'm a bit stumped

The two guides I followed (only somewhat on the first because it's for Lenny):

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-d ... n-lenny-p2

http://www.debian-multimedia.org/

Maybe I edited the lines "ftp2.de.debian.org" incorrectly to "ftp.us.debian.org", or maybe worse

For being a testing release I expected many more problems than this, I'm very impressed

[Absent Minded]

if you comment out or remove the first 2 net sources (they only have "main") then it will quit complaining about duplicates in your source.list file.

[kansasnoob]

I'll give that a whirl in the AM. I was thinking it had to do with the five I'd added, especially since I kind of guessed at editing the ones with "ftp2.de". Could it be that I guessed right

I can't get over how well this runs. It's very stable for still being a "testing" release. X seems much more stable in Squeeze than in Karmic or Lucid.

[Absent Minded]

just to be more clear I intended to mean these 4 lines:

Code: Select all

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

I have been very happily running testing for several years. IMHO it runs better than "most" distros stable releases.

[kansasnoob]

Gosh I can see that now

I must've been really tired, I can see now that I added: main contrib non-free
, silly me.

[Absent Minded]

i wouldn't worry about it too much i have done the same thing on more than one occasion.