World wide mirror sites ( link ) After installing the base system, do the following. For main Debian repository hostname:/# nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list #more entries from here of course from /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free Hongkong is best for my case too: #more entries from here of course from /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free Notice that we added backports URL in sources.list. That's where open-vm-tools are currently hosted. Continue with installing the rest of the software: :/# wget -O - http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add - :/# apt-get update :/# apt-get install less Depen
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