On 2019-04-03, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > > I was going to document here the work-a-round I successfully used > yesterday to install desired additional packages.
There's a bug report concerning this from 2014. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745381 In that thread our very own Brian P. states: It would appear that on Wheezy it is necessary for '--no-auto-detect' to be added to the apt-cdrom command to get sources.list written to. On Jessie 'sudo apt-cdrom -d /media/usb0 add' works with or without this option. I guess the above holds true for Stretch and Buster, buster (but it's only a guess)? > Before doing so, I attempted to duplicate the steps performed yesterday. > I received a strange error message. I suspect I know the source of the > problem(s). It will take at least a day to document. > > > -- “Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched--love for instance-- we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.” - Virginia Woolf, The Waves
