Kali Linux 2.0 is based on Jessie and is, from now on, a rolling release, where they pull packages from Debian testing. This makes it a complicated situation. It could (!) work for now flawlessly to use jessie sources beside but you will probably run into situations where you get problems with broken packages.

Jan 10, 2017 · LinuxConfig is looking for a technical writer(s) geared towards GNU/Linux and FLOSS technologies. Your articles will feature various GNU/Linux configuration tutorials and FLOSS technologies used in combination with GNU/Linux operating system. Debian Fast Server Select Do you want Debian to automatically choose the fastest download server? Then simply leave this box selected. You can not make a selection in the mirror list, if you prefer to select a mirror, please deactivate this box. Use deb.debian.org (Fast Server Select) service? Jul 17, 2019 · You can find the main list of Debian repositories from Debian Worldwide sources.list mirrors. Distribution The distribution can be either the release code name / alias ( jessie, stretch, buster, sid ) or the release class ( old stable, stable, testing, unstable ) respectively. Backports cannot be tested as extensively as Debian stable, and backports are provided on an as-is basis, with risk of incompatibilities with other components in Debian stable. Use with care! It is therefore recommended to select single backported packages that fit your needs, and not use all available backports. Add backports to your sources.list Feb 25, 2013 · After that 'testing' will be interchangeable with the next Debian name (dont know it yet from the top of my head) and 'wheezy' with 'stable'. I let it 'testing' because that will always be 'testing' and bring all the new stuff in (maybe after the release for a month or so i will change it to wheezy to avoid the possibly disrupting post-freeze

To get it to work properly, after using the "add-apt-repository ppa:some/ppa" command, you need to edit the PPA source file which is located under the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ folder, and replace your Debian version (for instance "wheezy") with an Ubuntu version - I recommend using a LTS version such as "trusty" or "precise" because non-LTS

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HOW TO BACKUP-RESTORE DEBIAN. After installing a lot of packages, it's better to make a backup, if something goes wrong just restore it without reconfigure all off your work. It's very important to unmount external folder before backing up debian, if not - all content from that directory will be included in archive and may become huge Debian Wheezy (7.0) step 5: remove or comment out the Etch source lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and restore the Lenny/Squeeze lines. 3.2 PostgreSQL on Ubuntu After I updated a Debian Wheezy server to Debian Jessie, I was having some problems with VLC. I was using the cvlc to capture and record video streams, but the capture would fail after 2 seconds. A colleague suggested that I leave the OS version alone, but downgrade VLC to confirm that the new version of VLC was causing the problem.