How-to Enable the Backports Repo for Debian Linux

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Enabling Linux Debian Backports Repo

The Linux Tip Show Step-by-Step How-to Enable the Linux Debian Backports Repository.

Debian Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in a few cases only, e.g. security updates) in a stable environment so that they will run without new libraries (whenever it is possible) on a Debian stable distribution

1. Open a Command Line Terminal Window





2. Enabling the Debian Backports

   su -c "nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list"

   On Squeeze Append:

   deb http://http.debian.net/debian-backports squeeze-backports(-sloppy) main

   On Wheezy Append:

   deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main

   Ctrl+x to Save & Exit from nano Editor 🙂
   Then Update the Debian Repos with:
   su -c “apt-get update”