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How do you tell apt to use files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

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I added a repo by putting a file in

 /etc/apt/sources.list.d

and then i did an

 apt-get update.

However it didn't do anything with that repo. I then noticed that it didn't appear to be including any of the repos in that directory. Only stuff in /etc/apt/sources.list seem to be noticed by apt-get. All the files in the directory end in .list and contain something like:

 virtualbox.list



      deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib



 pj-assis-ppa-oneiric.list



      deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pj-assis/ppa/ubuntu oneiric main

      deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/pj-assis/ppa/ubuntu oneiric main

Do I need to put some sort of include statement in /etc/apt/sources.list?

I'm using kubuntu 11.10.

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answered 1 Year ago atchcommo · Accepted Answer

So the problem seemed to be that I had a package installed from one of the normal apt repos and I wanted it to update with a version from one of the new repos. Apparently this is not possible. I had to uninstall the packages in question and then install with all of the normal repos commented out. I'm still not sure why when you do an apt-get update, that none of these new repos have their urls displayed.