Bigpond Ubuntu Respository

[Les Gray]

Am Samstag, den 22.12.2007, 13:32 +1100 schrieb Norman Ma:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm a Bigpond user, and this looks pretty useful to me. It doesn't
> provide any instructions on setting it as the main software source for
> Synaptic, so how would I go about doing that?
> 

You can switch to the Bigpond mirror manually, by editing the
file /etc/apt/sources.list (Synaptic and similar programs read this file
when you use them). Steps are as follows -

1. Back up your existing sources.list file by opening up a terminal and
running this command:

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak

2. From the same terminal run:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

You now have the file open in your text editor.

3. Edit all the applicable sections to use the Bigpond server. For
example, where you have -

deb http://au.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted

change it to -

deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted

4. Do this for all Ubuntu repositories you use except multiverse, which
for some reason is not mirrored by Bigpond. If you use the multiverse
repository just leave it's line(s) as it is.

5. Save and exit, then run -

sudo aptitude update

and you're all done. Synaptic etc. will be updated the next time you run
it.

You can use my sources.list file as a guide -

# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade
to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as
to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
security
## team.
deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
Ubuntu 
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as
to 
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in 
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the
'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it
includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful
features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any
review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main
restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to
Ubuntu
## users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse

## Medibuntu - Ubuntu 7.10 "gutsy gibbon"
## Please report any bug on https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/
# deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free

HTH