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The Debian System -- Concepts and Techniques

Martin F. Krafft — Open Source Press / No Starch Press — ISBN 3-937514-07-4 / 1-593270-69-0

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Debian adds security support for amd64 (page 122)

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Reported on: 2005-08-11

In chapter 4. Debian releases and archives on page 122:

Even though amd64 is not (yet) an official architecture, the Debian security team has declared that it will support the sarge release of the Debian AMD64 port, which was released shortly after the official sarge release.

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To receive security upgrades for an AMD64 system, add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main

then run

# aptitude update
# aptitude upgrade

on a regular basis.

Credits

Martin "Joey" Schulze and the Debian security team

Feedback

Ladislav Bodnar, Distrowatch: He does not come through as a person strongly advocating his preferred operating system - in fact, he freely admits that Debian might not be for everyone and other Linux distributions (or even other operating systems) might sometimes be more suitable for certain users and tasks.

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