This is a good newbie thing to learn:
I was trying to update my #! and was getting EXTREMELY slow downloads. The default ftp debian repository is in Europe, so I thought I should probably make this closer, say, in the U.S. for example. So, how do you do that?
The debian repository that is std on #! Statler is for debian SqeeZe is listed in a file called sources.list, and it can be found from within the terminal at:
/etc/apt/sources.list
so, you can start by changing into that directory:
cd /etc/apt
then
sudo gedit sources.list
(I did this as sudo because I don't presently know how to access this file otherwise. Please feel free to comment if there is a better way to change read-only permission!)
This will provide the list of sources within the file. I added a # in front of the currently used ftp from Europe, which is listed as:
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
which I changed to:
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
This sped things up quite a bit and I completed all updates within minutes as opposed to hours or days. I think this wasn't obvious and is likely a very early thing one should do when installing #! in the US. It makes additional downloads and software much smoother to obtain as well.
