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aptconf configures your sources.list file by parsing your sources.list and reading XML descriptions of available repositories. It then presents a list of repositories for you to select or deselect, depending on whether you want to download software from those repositories or not. You may also add and remove custom repositories to the list. Finally, after selecting the repositories you want, aptconf will write a new sources.list based on your choices, attempting to preserve the contents of the old file as much as possible.
Starting aptconf opens the Main window, shown in Figure 1. Aptconf can be started from the Control Center, or may appear as part of another program to configure your system.
The main window consists of a list of software repositories. Each repository has a checkbox next to it; if the box is checked, the repository is available for installing software. Below the repository list are a series of buttons which control the list; they allow new repositories to be added, custom repositories to be removed, and the attributes of existing repositories to be changed.
Some of the repositories in the list have repository descriptions, which describe the repository and allow custom settings for the repository to be easily selected. Repositories with descriptions may not be removed, only disabled. Figure 2 shows the dialog for customizing the settings for a repository with a description.
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