[wellylug] adding security repos

Rimu Atkinson rimuatkinson at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 17:47:19 NZST 2008


woo, 120 megs of updates.

thanks :)

R

Darryl Hamilton wrote:
> Hi
>
> This is what I have in my sources.list (hardy)
>
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
>
> Changing the 'hardy' bits to 'feisty' should work fine.
>
> d.
>
> Rimu Atkinson wrote:
>   
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have an ubuntu server, that I can only access using SSH.
>>
>> After about 6 months of running it, going "apt-get upgrade" reports that
>> I have no packages that need upgrading. This seems unlikely, as I'm sure
>> there would have been security updates to install by now.
>>
>> So I need to enable the security repos.
>>
>> In /etc/apt/sources.list.d there are two files. main.list and universe.list
>>
>> main.list simply has
>> deb-src http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
>>
>> while universe.list has
>> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe multiverse main
>> restricted
>> deb-src http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe multiverse
>>
>> What do I add, to which file?? I'm guessing
>>
>> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty security-main
>> somethingsomething??
>>
>> Thank you!
>> R
>>
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