While setting up a debian server, the initial hurdle was to get the packages downloading from the repositories. It was redirecting to CDRom, asking for CDRom to be inserted. Let us see how to enable APT repository at the source.list
Get a mirror close to the server from http://www.debian.org/mirror/list . Edited the file /etc/apt/sources.list
Commented out the lines,
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ – Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20090214-19:11]/ lenny main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ – Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20090214-19:11]/ lenny main
and added below lines
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
Finally reloaded the aptitude with the following commands
aptitude update
And voila, I have the repository read to start the small task.
