I don’t understand the difference between these two lines in my sources.list, please explain:
deb http://mirror.optus.net/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
versus
deb-src http://mirror.optus.net/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
System: Debian 6 testing, 32 bit.
Answers:
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Method 1
deb lines are relative to binary packages, that you can install with apt.
deb-src lines are relative to source packages (as downloaded by apt-get source $package) and next compiled.
Source packages are needed only if you want to compile some package yourself, or inspect the source code for a bug. Ordinary users don’t need to include such repositories.
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