Discussion:
something to read for new users
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Arto Keiski
2018-07-31 18:50:01 UTC
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I've been lately quite active on #debian irc-channel on oftc, and
http://forums.debian.net

More and more new users come asking help, when
something does not work, and very soon we discover, they have added 3rd
party sources to /etc/apt/sources.list

There is an excellent article on Debian wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

which we on those forums suggest them to read on these situations.

I've been wondering, many newbies maybe woulnd't have to reinstall, it
they had read the article soon enough.

Could there be a link to that article in some doc
so it would be easy to spot?


Arto Keiski
Baptiste Jammet
2018-08-01 08:30:01 UTC
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Hello,
Post by Arto Keiski
Could there be a link to that article in some doc
so it would be easy to spot?
In which documentation ? Or, in other words, what is the {first,only}
doc read by new users ?

There is already https://www.debian.org/doc/ that lists the mains docs
(and wiki.d.o is linked).
The 4th link is Debian Reference, that explain to "not mix standard
Debian with other non-Debian archives".
(https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_precautions)

Baptiste

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