On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:13:26AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: | I hear everybody saying "But you don't need the 13 cd's". OK, I don't | need the 13 CD's. But I have x CD's and have them registered with | apt-cdrom. Now I want a package Y. Synaptic or whatever won't show it | because it isn't on the CD's. | Where do I now find "Dummy, the package is on CD #z which you did not | download!"?
At that point it doesn't matter what cd that package was on. At that point you download just that one package from http://packages.debian.org and install it. You can configure apt to do that automatically for you, too -- list your cds first in /etc/apt/sources.list then list the network sources of your choosing. apt will then use the cd if the package (with that version) is on the cd and only then use the network. After all, why would you want to download an entire cd just to get one package (even if you -had- a 100Mbps connection to the cd's server it would take a while)? -D -- A kindhearted woman gains respect, but ruthless men gain only wealth. Proverbs 11:16 www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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