Debian Sources List Generator VS Ketarin

You’re still in PuTTY - open your browser and go to the Debian sources.list generator. Source: over 1 year ago

1) Beware New Shiny Stuff Syndrome Https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian/#Don.27t\_suffer\_from\_Shiny\_New\_Stuff\_Syndrome 2) I assume you want the latest versions of some things and not all. From Stable you can use a) Backports b) Flatpak and Snaps c) SOME Third Party Repositories. Compare Don't Break Debian https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian and some of the Third Party Repositories on e.g.... Source: almost 2 years ago

You have to comment out the cdrom entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and make sure your other entries are correct and then run apt update. I always end up using this for generating sources lists. Source: about 2 years ago

The list looks alright. If you are unsure about if it's only the repos that you need, you can grab from google a fresh offical debian sources.list. Also there is a website, you can generate for debian custom sources.list with and mark which repos you want in the list, you can also mark repos like spotify, signal and more. On this link you can generate your own list: https://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ Just double check... Source: almost 3 years ago

Even the generator's selection of third-party repos seem copy-pasted.. (and definitely not by someone who cares about free software). Source: about 3 years ago

I know Ketarin exists which can accomplish something similar, but with the way cracked software is usually distributed it could become pretty hard to configure. Source: over 1 year ago

Ketarin can do this, or with a bit of work you could probably do this with git. Pull the initial repo into your location of choice, select the most recent tag with git tag and then git pull the result. Source: over 1 year ago

Ketarin is great freeware to help keep these sorts of utilities up to date. Source: over 2 years ago