How sources.list should look like?

[zdorian]

I have problems whenever I run apt-get update , it shows errors like
404 package not found and ignoring file as it has an invalid filename extension,

can you show me some average sources.list to check what's basic stuff I should add.

I added some packages there like dropbox and other repositories, so probably something of that is causing problems.
Or maybe even sources.list.d , I think I saw an error in that file


Thanks for any help

[fanderal]

Hello and welcome.

Here's what I normally use, set for the US mirror. Are the enabled (uncommented) repos different or the same as yours?

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

# Squeeze Volatile
# deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile squeeze/volatile main
# deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile squeeze/volatile main

# Squeeze
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

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

# VirtualBox
# sudo wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
# deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian squeeze contrib non-free

# Debian Backports
# wget -O - http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main

# Skype
# deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free

[zdorian]

Thank you very much for help
I copied some repositories I was missing and removed some unnecessary. I had even some duplicates,
404 errors are cleaned now I only have errors saying

Ignoring file 'dropbox.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ as it have bad file extension

all in sources.list.d
I checked it , and all are duplicates like dropbox.list and dropbox.list.save, opera.list and opera.list.save, etc., I removed 'em, and now no errors at all

[fanderal]

Glad you got it working.

If needed (or curious), here's a page with some useful links and a long list of sources:
My Debian sources.list