Decorridos mais de meio ano do lançamento do Debian GNU / Linux versão 3.1 (Sarge), alguns pacotes mais atualizados para desktop começam a fazer bastante falta.

Para uma instalação mais fácil, e de muitos outros pacotes interessantes, veja os arquivos preferences e sources.list que utilizo no desktop hoje.

/etc/apt/preferences

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 800

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 101

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 99

Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 9

Package: *
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 200

Package: openoffice.org-l10n-pt-br
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: openoffice.org-help-pt-br
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: openoffice.org-dictionaries
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: openoffice.org-gnome
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: openoffice.org
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: clamav
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: clamav-freshclam
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: libclamav1
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: clamav-base
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: lsb-base
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: firefox-dom-inspector
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: firefox-gnome-support
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: firefox
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: mozilla-firefox-gnome-support
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: mozilla-firefox
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: debhelper
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: nvidia-kernel-common
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: nvidia-glx
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: nvidia-glx-dev
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: nvidia-kernel-source
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: nvidia-graphics-modules
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: nvidia-kernel-2.6.14-2-k7
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

/etc/apt/sources.list

# official repositories or mirrors

deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free
# deb file:/var/cache/apt-build/repository/ apt-build main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ sarge/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ sarge/non-US main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.br.debian.org/debian-non-US/ sarge/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free

# unnoficial repositories
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sarge main
deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main

#deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free restricted
#deb-src http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free restricted

#unofficial repository with with BACKPORTED packages maintained by the official

#package maintainers. Reliable, but still unofficial. Read the faq at their site.

deb http://backports.debian.or.at/backports.org/ sarge-backports main contrib non-free
deb ftp://sft.if.usp.br/debian-volatile/ sarge/volatile main contrib non-free

# if you try to mix packages from testing with stable, being stable the main version

#enable these repositories
## tentativa de misturar pacotes de versoes, sendo stable a principal
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
#deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
#deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing/ testing/security-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing/ testing/security-updates main contrib non-free