On 2019-04-03, Richard Owlett 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 Br
Richard Owlett writes:
> At this point, the same cognoscenti who bemoan Linux lacking market
> penetration tell him to go read some techie manuals and perform arcane
> incantations. As true ostriches they insist the problem is "operator
> error".
This is a good way to not get any help.
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John Ha
On Wed, Apr 3, 2019, 8:26 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> At this point, the same cognoscenti who bemoan Linux lacking market
> penetration tell him to go read some techie manuals and perform arcane
> incantations. As true ostriches they insist the problem is "operator
> error".
>
This is a misperc
Rather than quote my original post, I'll restate the underlying problem.
In the beginning, Joe Average would obtain Debian on a set of physical
installation CDs. He boots from it. The installer does it's thing.
Later, desiring additional software, he inserts the same CD and allows
Synaptic to
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 05:33:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
> I was wondering about that. I've never had a clear understanding of
> when to use 1 slash and when to use 3. I assumed that in this case 1
> was acceptable because how Synaptic's error message was phrased when
> attempting Ed
On 04/01/2019 06:11 PM, Jason wrote:
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 07:23:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 03/31/2019 08:55 AM, bw wrote:
In-Reply-To:
The installation, having put the DVD1 ISO on a flash drive, encountered
no problems
*HOWEVER* I need several packages [gparted, tcl, tk] whic
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 07:23:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 03/31/2019 08:55 AM, bw wrote:
> >In-Reply-To:
> >
> >
> >>The installation, having put the DVD1 ISO on a flash drive, encountered
> >>no problems
> >>
> >>
> >>*HOWEVER* I need several packages [gparted, tcl, tk] which are in th
On 04/01/2019 02:51 AM, didier gaumet wrote:
Le 31/03/2019 à 15:28, Richard Owlett a écrit :
[...]
I added the line
deb "file:/media/richard/Debian testing amd64 1/debian" buster contrib
main
to the beginning of sources.list .
[...]
This is unacceptable when installation via an iso image on
On 03/31/2019 08:55 AM, bw wrote:
In-Reply-To:
The installation, having put the DVD1 ISO on a flash drive, encountered
no problems
*HOWEVER* I need several packages [gparted, tcl, tk] which are in the DVD
image.
Synaptic is unable to install them:
1. sources.list refers to a non-existen
Le 31/03/2019 à 15:28, Richard Owlett a écrit :
[...]
> I added the line
>> deb "file:/media/richard/Debian testing amd64 1/debian" buster contrib
>> main
>
> to the beginning of sources.list .
[...]
> This is unacceptable when installation via an iso image on a flash drive
> is becoming more and
I wish to install Buster on a machine with essentially *NO* internet
connectivity.
I downloaded the DVD1 ISO on my primary machine [creates secondary
problem of being up against data cap].
The installation, having put the DVD1 ISO on a flash drive, encountered
no problems
*HOWEVER* I need seve
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