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NAME
sources.list - APT
Debian GNU/Linux /etc/apt/sources.list
1 uri uri Universal Resource Identifier (URI) Universal Resource
Locator (URL) #
SOURCES.LIST.D
The /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory provides a way to add
sources.list entries in separate files. The format is the same as for
the regular sources.list file. File names need to end with .list and
may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z), digits (0-9), underscore (_),
hyphen (-) and period (.) characters. Otherwise APT will print a notice
that it has ignored a file if the file doesn't match a pattern in the
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently configuration list - in this case it will be
silently ignored.
DEB DEB-SRC
The deb type describes a typical two-level Debian archive,
distribution/component. Typically, distribution is generally an
archivename like stable or testing or a codename like squeeze or wheezy
while component is one of main contrib or non-free. The deb-src type
describes a debian distribution's source code in the same form as the
deb type. A deb-src line is required to fetch source indexes.
deb deb-src sources.list
deb [ options ] uri distribution [component1] [component2] [...]
deb URI APT Debian distribution component distribution (/) URL
distribution component
distribution $(ARCH) $(ARCH) Debian (i386, m68k, powerpc, ...)
sources.list APT URI
distribution, component 1 1 distribution URI APT URI FTP 1 FTP
APT
options is always optional and needs to be surounded by square
brackets. It can consist of multiple settings in the form
setting=value. Multiple settings are separated by spaces. The following
settings are supported by APT, note though that unsupported settings
will be ignored silently:
o arch=arch1,arch2,... can be used to specify for which
architectures packages information should be downloaded. If this
option is not set all architectures defined by the
APT::Architectures option will be downloaded.
o trusted=yes can be set to indicate that packages from this source
are always authenificated even if the Release file is not signed or
the signature can't be checked. This disables parts of apt-
secure(8) and should therefore only be used in a local and trusted
context. trusted=no is the opposite which handles even correctly
authenificated sources as not authenificated.
(CD-ROM )
:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
URI
URI cdrom, file, http, ftp, copy, ssh, rsh .PP
file NFS
cdrom
cdrom APT CD-ROM cdrom apt-cdrom(8)
http
http HTTP http_proxy http://server:port/ http_proxy HTTP/1.1
http://user:pass@server:port/
ftp
ftp FTP APT FTP apt.conf(5) ftp ftp_proxy http (http ftp url)
http ftp
copy
copy file zip APT
rsh, ssh
rsh/ssh rsh/ssh RSA rhosts find dd
URI
APT can be extended with more methods shipped in other optional
packages which should follow the nameing scheme
apt-transport-method. The APT team e.g. maintains also the
apt-transport-https package which provides access methods for
https-URIs with features similar to the http method, but other
methods for using e.g. debtorrent are also available, see apt-
transport-debtorrent(1).
/home/jason/debian stable/main, stable/contrib, stable/non-free (
NFS)
deb file:/home/jason/debian stable main contrib non-free
()
deb file:/home/jason/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src file:/home/jason/debian unstable main contrib non-free
The first line gets package information for the architectures in
APT::Architectures while the second always retrieves amd64 and armel.
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze main
deb [ arch=amd64,armel ] http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze main
archive.debian.org HTTP hamm/main
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive hamm main
ftp.debian.org FTP debian squeeze/contrib
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze contrib
ftp.debian.org FTP debian unstable/contrib sources.list FTP
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable contrib
Uses HTTP to access the archive at ftp.tlh.debian.org, under the
universe directory, and uses only files found under
unstable/binary-i386 on i386 machines, unstable/binary-amd64 on amd64,
and so forth for other supported architectures. [Note this example only
illustrates how to use the substitution variable; official debian
archives are not structured like this]
deb http://ftp.tlh.debian.org/universe unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/
apt-cache(8) apt.conf(5)
APT [1] APT /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt reportbug(1)
<nabetaro@debian.or.jp> (2003-2006,2009-2010), Debian JP Documentation
ML <debian-doc@debian.or.jp>
AUTHORS
Jason Gunthorpe
APT
NOTES
1. APT
http://bugs.debian.org/src:apt