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Debian 8 Jessie sources.list, missing installation sources.

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Each time I install Debian Jessie or Debian 8 I notice that I can not install any software packages afterwards. I’m not sure if it is me, or the installation media, but the sources.list is missing entries. Recently I tried installing xrdp, which allows Windows OS machines to RDP into Linux OS machines.

Commands such as…

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install package_name

… yielded no results. When I navigate to /etc/apt/sources.list I noticed there were only 3 entries in the file.

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux....

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib

However the Debian Wiki specifies two additional sources.

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main

Once you add these to your sources list and run the above commands the
packages should update, and you can proceed with installing XRDP.