Enabling repositories at sources.list on a apt enabled lenny server

While setting up a debian server, the initial hurdle was to get the packages downloading from the repositories. It was redirecting to CDRom, asking for CDRom to be inserted.

Get a mirror close to the server from http://www.debian.org/mirror/list . Edited the file /etc/apt/sources.list

Commented out the lines,

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20090214-19:11]/ lenny main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20090214-19:11]/ lenny main

and added below lines

deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ lenny main

Finally reloaded the aptitude with the following commands

aptitude update

And voila, I have the repository read to start the small task.

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