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I am trying to install Debian kernel sources using the following commands - 

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

It prompts me to insert the Debian disk to continue the installation.

Why is this so? I have used other Linux Distros and the default behavior seems to be to install from an internet repository.

How should I change the default repository location? i.e. configure online repo for Debian and offline one for Ubuntu?

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Check /etc/apt/sources.list and change the entries to point to some mirror. (See also man 5 sources.list) – sr_ Jun 4 '12 at 11:10
@sr_ You mean I need to configure the mirrors manually? But with yum install kernel-devel one doesn't need to do it. What is the difference here? – Kshitiz Sharma Jun 4 '12 at 11:56
@sr_ Alternatively is it possible to use yum as a package manager with Debian? – Kshitiz Sharma Jun 4 '12 at 11:56
@sr_ Perhaps you should've put in your suggestions as an answer so that I could select it. Or do you think you have too many points already? :-) – Kshitiz Sharma Jun 4 '12 at 13:30

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Afaik you end up having no mirrors configured in your /etc/apt/sources.list if you skipped the corresponding questions during system setup. As already pointed out, you just have to edit your sources.list file, followed by apt-get update to update your local package index.

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