Telstra BigPond (Australia) Users - quota-free apt repo

[James Takac]

Hi James

On Sunday 07 September 2008 08:28:30 James Gray wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I recently switched to BigPond (long and sad story) and due to their
> rather small quotas I went hunting for anything and everything I could
> from their quota-free content.  Consequently, I have the following
> sources list for my 8.0.4 LTS box.
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
> deb-src http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
>
> ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
> ## distribution.
> deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main
> restricted universe multiverse
> deb-src http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main
> restricted universe multiverse
>
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
> ## and 'multiverse' repositories.
> deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy universe multiverse
> deb-src http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy universe multiverse
>
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the
> 'backports'
> ## repository.
> deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main
> restricted universe multiverse
> deb-src http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main
> restricted universe multiverse
>
> ## Security Updates
> deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
> deb-src http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu hardy-security main
> restricted
> deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu hardy-security universe
> multiverse
> deb-src http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu hardy-security universe
> multiverse
>
> ## Some stuff I need to make my UPnP server (Media Tomb) work better!
> deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free
>
> After editing your sources list, run a "sudo apt-get --fix-missing
> update" ... or whatever the equivalent is in the GUI.  Voila!!
>
> Hope that saves someone the search :)  Enjoy quota-free Ubuntu updates!
>
> Cheers,
>
> James


I'm sure this info would be appreciated on to Australian Ubuntu mailing list. 
Do you mind if I forward this on to them?

James (Takac)