How do I add staging to my sources.list?

[Tracey Lowndes]

Hi, I'd like to get some packages from staging in the Hoary backports. How do I edit my sources.list to enable me to do so?

At the moment my backports repositories look like these:


deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports/ hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports/ hoary-extras main universe multiverse restricted


Thanks in advance.

Tracey Lowndes.

[bored2k]

Open a terminal and type:

sudo cat deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports/ hoary-backports-staging main universe multiverse restricted >> /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo cat deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports/ hoary-extras-staging main universe multiverse restricted >> /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo apt-get update ; echo That is it

That should work :-|

[XDevHald]

Open a terminal and type:

sudo cat deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports/ hoary-backports-staging main universe multiverse restricted >> /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo cat deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports/ hoary-extras-staging main universe multiverse restricted >> /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo apt-get update ; echo That is it

That should work :-|
Hey bored2k, here's the post again lol.

I get the following error when updating...


W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/universe Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hoary_universe_ binary-i386_Packages)

I feel like a n00b but I am really lost when trying to fix this, I don't want to mess anything up, even if I know where it's at.

Also, here is my sources.list.


deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch major bug fix updates produced
## after the final release of the distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main

deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports hoary-extras main universe multiverse restricted

deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports/ hoary-backports-staging main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports/ hoary-extras-staging main universe multiverse restricted

Edit$ ~ Ok fixed it :D

[jdong]

Don't worry about that error -- it just means that you somehow included Universe twice in the sources.list.

You can safely ignore it -- nothing bad will happen!