Community Repository - Final Addresses

[Brooko]

First up - thanks to Marcos and Tim for their work on both the servers and the addresses. The Mepis CR Team is proud to announce the full and final list of repository addresses.

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SPECIAL NOTE - MEPIS 8.5 USERS
For users of 8.5 - it is STRONGLY recommended that you do not use the 8.0 CR Repos - some packages may work, others may not. 8.0 CR is not fully compatible with MEPIS 8.5 release.

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Community Server Addresses
We suggest you delete any existing server addresses for the Community Repository from your sources list (it is easiest to do via synaptic), and replace them with the following.

MEPIS 8.5 (KDE4) SERVER ADDRESSES

Main repo : deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis85cr main non-free
Restricted repo : deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis85cr restricted restricted-non-free

MEPIS 8.5 (KDE4) TEST SERVER ADDRESSES

Main repo : deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis85cr test
Restricted repo : deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis85cr test-restricted

MEPIS 8 SERVER ADDRESSES

Main repo : deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis8cr main non-free
Restricted repo : deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis8cr restricted restricted-non-free

MEPIS 8 TEST SERVER ADDRESSES

Main repo : deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis8cr test
Restricted repo : deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis8cr test-restricted

MEPIS 7 SERVER ADDRESSES

Main repo :deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis7cr main non-free
Restricted repo: deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis7cr restricted restricted-non-free

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Mepis 8 (Warren's) Repository Mirror
If using this (because of connectivity issues with Warrens official server), we suggest unticking / commenting out his ftp server - and replacing it with:

deb http://fr1.mepis-deb.org/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main

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Add Mepis CR server addresses using konsole
MEPIS 8.5 ONLY

su -c 'echo -e "\

# Mepis Community Main, Restricted, and Test Repos for Mepis 8.5

deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis85cr main non-free
#deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis85cr restricted restricted-non-free
#deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis85cr test
#deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis85cr test-restricted

"\ >> /etc/apt/sources.list'

Then as root, then run apt-get update, then close konsole.

This will add all 4 Mepis 8.5 repo addresses to your sources list. The restricted repo and 2 x Test repos will be disabled by default. You can enable them via synaptic.
**THANKS TO KENT MATHERN FOR THE TIDIER KONSOLE COMMAND!**
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MEPIS 8 ONLY
Open a konsole, and (it's all one line):

su -c 'echo -e "\

# Mepis Community Main, Restricted, and Test Repos for Mepis 8

deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis8cr main non-free
#deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis8cr restricted restricted-non-free
#deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis8cr test
#deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis8cr test-restricted

"\ >> /etc/apt/sources.list'

Then as root, then run apt-get update, then close konsole.

This will add all 4 Mepis 8 repo addresses to your sources list. The restricted repo and 2 x Test repos will be disabled by default. You can enable them via synaptic.
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MEPIS 7 ONLY
Open a konsole, and as root (it's all one line):

echo '# Mepis Community Main and Restricted Repos' >> /etc/apt/sources.list && echo 'deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis7cr main non-free' >> /etc/apt/sources.list && echo '# deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis7cr restricted restricted-non-free' >> /etc/apt/sources.list

While still as root, then run apt-get update, then close konsole.

This will add 2 Mepis 7 repo addresses to your sources list. The restricted repo will be disabled by default. You can enable it via synaptic.
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The Mepis CR Team
The team consists of :
Marcos, Tim, Stevo, James, Scott and myself.

Thanks for your patience. it's nice to have this finally 100% up and running.

[Acesabe]

Great work guys - these additional repos add significant extra and newer version packages to the already huge Debian+Mepis base.

[namida12]

Marcos, Tim, Stevo and Brooko,

Tipping me hat, clapping me hands in thunderous applause...

Good effort, many thanks...

JR
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[Stevo]

I've made a little deb package that will also install the addresses into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ in an "add-on" file. It will appear transparent to the user, but the URLs are not in sources.list, instead they are in

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ml_community_repo.list

Only the main CR is enabled by default; I also added the deb-src URLs.

It would also be easy to make a deb package that will add additional useful sources, such as the compiz-fusion packages from Shame's repo, or the KDE 4 repo from debian-desktop. Any more suggestions?

Attached is the deb package and the sources for it.

[Brooko]

Stevo

I don't know if this is because I'm using KDE 4 - but I got this error:

brooko/Desktop/addmlcr_0.1-1mlrepo1_all.deb ;echo RESULT=$?
sh: syntax error near unexpected token `('

No addon file created.

[Stevo]

Hmmm--any more failure reports? Maybe I should zip up the deb, since we have had corrupted downloads from attachments before. Let me try an install on a VM...

[timkb4cq]

The deb installed just fine here.

[Stevo]

Just downloaded and installed the deb in a 32 bit VM with no error message.

md5sum should be 781719f96d422689eabc970a02a9a86d

Maybe it's a 64 bit issue? Anybody else try an install on that architecture?

[vampirefo]

just tried on 64bit gnome the deb installed without any problems. ml_community_repo.list was installed in /etc/apt/sources.list.d.

I do right click and install debs via gdebi-gtk in gnome.

[Stevo]

Odd, then...maybe Brooko has a bad download...or maybe just more proof that KDE 4 stinks!

Steve (ducking and running)

PS. I installed with gdebi also...

If anyone is not clear what I did in the sources, I just stuck the file I wanted to install in the /debian folder, and added an addmlcr.install text file there that specified where I wanted it to be installed. You could use this technique to install KDE servicemenus also, or pretty much any file anywhere you want it to go. Executable scripts need a little extra, I think...unless cdbs handles it automatically.