Want Debian Repositories for latest softwares

[brweb]

Hi,
I was using Ubuntu for last six months. Now, I want to try Debian 4.0. So, I have installed Debian 4 from DVD.

I want to install firefox, gnome 2.22, gimp 2.4.5 etc.. all latest softwares. But the default update will not update the GIMP with latest version. I want to install all latest versions. Please provide me repositories for all latest softwares. I have googled it but no luck.

Thanks in advance.

[daark.child]

Debian is very conservative about packages updates in a stable release so you won't get the latest versions. Try Debian Testing or Debian Unstable.

[Debian Linux Geek]

Debian is very conservative about packages updates in a stable release so you won't get the latest versions. Try Debian Testing or Debian Unstable.

Debian has a very unique and the best relases cylce IMO. The stable release is frozen once released and only security updates and critical bug patches are applied. If you want the latest packages you need to be running sid, but theres a good chance of it hosing your system since its very unstable. If you want newer packages and a rather stable system I would upgrade to lenny.

[Manchunian]

Yes, if you want the latest software, Debian pure is not for you. The philosophy of Debian is total reliability and this credos means that its applications are always far older than what is offered in the other distros (with the exception of Slackware, whose developers are also very prudent). If you want the cutting edge, you need to install Sid or, may I suggest it, go back to Ubuntu. Alternatively, try Sidux.

[devils casper]

If you want the latest packages you need to be running sid, but theres a good chance of it hosing your system since its very unstable.

Thats not true at all. I am running sid for last one and half year and I haven't faced a single major problems. A few packages get broken sometimes but next update sort those out itself.

[brweb]

What is sid ? How to make it run ?
I am a newbie in Debian world ...

[coopstah13]

sid means the current "unstable" version of debian, etch is the current "stable" version with lenny being the current "testing" version

it is the way they come out with their new versions of their distribution, eventually sid will be the current stable distribution of debian, with lenny scheduled to be the next stable.

if you want to use sid, all you have to do is edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and replace all occurrences of etch with sid, then run

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

i would like to add, that the disadvantage to using sid is, the possibility of package failures because of the way things get added to the repositories, but like casper said, they fix themselves pretty quickly usually within a day, also you don't get security updates, but the software gets normal updates so quickly that the security vulnerabilities may not even apply to the newer version, they might have the fix included in the build, or whatever, i've been using sid for about 6 months now and I've only had package problems 2 or 3 times, and it wasn't anything major

[brweb]

if you want to use sid, all you have to do is edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and replace all occurrences of etch with sid, then run

How to do this ?

[coopstah13]

edit it as root in whatever text editor is your choice, i normally use pico
open a terminal

su
pico /etc/apt/sources.list

ctrl + o to save, ctrl + x to close it

[brweb]

This is my file /etc/apt/sources.list :

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb Debian -- Security Information sid/updates main contrib
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src Debian -- Security Information etch/updates main contrib
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-2 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-3 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main

I go errors when I update it. error :

W: Couldn't stat source package list Debian -- Security Information sid/updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_sid_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list Debian -- Security Information sid/updates/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_sid_updates_contrib_bina ry-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)