-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:11 pm, Haines Brown wrote: > > You have to update the local cache with what is available on the > > remote site... > > > > apt-get update > > > > apt-get install sudo > > > > Should really do: > > > > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade > > > > First and foremost...! > > OK, I removed the references to cdrom in my /etc/apt/sources.list, > and things run more cleanly. As a test I did # aptitude install sudo, > and it worked. > > Now I turn to your recommendation and run: aptitude update && > aptitude upgrade, and while the update seems to go, I'm told there's > nothing to upgrade. I seriously doubt it: > > Reading Package Lists... 0% > Reading Package Lists... 100% > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... 0% > Building Dependency Tree... 0% > Building Dependency Tree... 50% > Building Dependency Tree... 50% > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information... 0% > Reading extended state information... 0% > > Reading extended state information... Done > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not > upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be > used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?] > > Is it your impression that the first group of responses suggest that > apt-get update worked. But then why no packages needed to install. My > installation was from a fairly old cdrom set of debian > 3.0r1. Shouldn't there be an enormous about of material to upgrade? > > Haines
You need a source for Debian Security.Woody only gets updated through the security site. i.e. deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/pFPxk7rtxKWZzGsRAk+/AJ0Qw2dnf0WMFeTxTGd6noM1HEHnBgCeLnMZ 502gdCzDdm4MueUPWYVnhZU= =pDsl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
