On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Paul Bransford wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 10:09 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:23:44PM -0500, Eben King wrote:
>>
>>> I went to add some packages (abcde, for one) to my laptop, which runs
>>> Ubuntu
>>> 6.something (how do I check?), only to find out that us.archive.ubuntu.com
>>> no longer carries that distro. This is highly un-good, as I hate
>>> reinstalling, and try to do it as seldom as possible. I'm not married to
>>> Ubuntu or a Debian-derived distro. What distro has a halfway decent
>>> package
>>> system, and is likely to be around a LONG time? Alternatively, is there
>>> another repository I could use?
>>
>> Debian will be around a LONG time, just because it's not subject to the
>> vaguaries of business/commerce. However, you might be able to simply
>> substitute "ie" for "us" in us.archive.ubuntu.com. I do this type of
>> thing when I have trouble with US Debian servers.
>>
>> You might check /etc/motd for a clue about your distro. If it's a Debian
>> derivative, check /etc/debian_version .
> I replied to this thread with some links, did anyone get it? I've sent
> messages before and they did not appear to go through... any ideas Paul?
>
>
> If you go to the documentation part of the Debian page, look for the
> "new maintainers' guide" and "Debian developer's manual". These should
> teach you how to get source code into Debian-based packages.
Yes, thank you, I got them.
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