Debian GNU/Linux is a 1st class citizen on our mirror. It’s actively used by the LEG admins, and the mirror should always be in tip-top condition. We mirror i386, amd64, and sources.
We mirror the Debian website at: http://www.za.debian.org/
Available in /pub/linux/debian-isos. They are jigdo‘ed by the LEG admins, and should be available within a couple of days of release.
Your /etc/apt/sources.list
file should look like this:
deb http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian stable main deb http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian-security stable/updates main
Obviously if you use testing
, unstable
, or a release name instead of stable
you should modify it accordingly. And if you want to enable contrib
and/or non-free
, append it to the end of each line.
You can enable additional updates (for packages which are updated outside the normal point release cycle):
Squeeze and newer:
deb http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian stable-updates main
Before Squeeze:
deb http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian-volatile stable/volatile main
You can enable newer versions of packages rebuilt for older releases (usually not supported as well as the release versions):
Wheezy and newer:
deb http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian stable-backports main
Backports are now part of the main archive.
Before Wheezy:
deb http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
Backports were previously provided by Backports.org.
For more information, read the APT howto.
http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ (acrobat, etc.):
deb http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian-multimedia stable main