Glitch in installing 9.04 as a Clean Install

[alfred]

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric <1ballistic1 at gmail.com>
Reply-to: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Glitch in installing 9.04 as a Clean Install
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:45:56 -0300

Tried the "Add/Remove" in Applications already? Either that, or maybe
you didnt "refresh" in synaptic?

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
        Hi -All:
        
        I un-checked all Internet Software Sources in Software Sources
        under all
        that Tabs that listed them. I had Add CD Pressed under ADD CD,
        and read
        in successively each DVD from the 8 DVD set. From DVD 2 to DVD 8
        Shows
        up in the Third Party List, after it read the Index Files on
        Each DVD,
        then I made sure there were check marks in front of each CD/DVD
        in that
        list.
        
        In Synaptic however, the indexes from the read CD/DVD's do not
        show up
        in the list of software available. So I can't very well select
        some
        software on a CD/DVD, and then stick in the DVD that it is on,
        and have
        it loaded from the DVD Repository. I asked thelinuxstore.org,
        for this
        info, the Commands to use, but no reply came.
        
        Is there a Package Manager that can work with CD/DVD
        Repositories in
        Terminal Mode, because when I reviewed the ISO files of the 8
        DVD's all
        the Software on the Ubuntu 9.04 Repositories is on them, approx
        32 Gigs
        of Software.
        
        What keywords would be useful for doing a search on Ubuntu to
        find out
        how to make use of such a Package Manager, in Terminal. I know
        APT and
        Aptitude can have CDROM words attached to them, Beginning Ubuntu
        Linux
        Keir Thomas Book, does not have much info on this, or perhaps
        I'm
        reading in the wrong place.
        
        Any Suggestions would be helpful -
        
        Tia
        
        
        Alfred!
        
        
        
        
        
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        Hi Eric:
        
        I refreshed Synaptic; that is using Check - right? I used that
        several times and it does not read the DVD repositories into the
        Software list in Synaptic.
        
        Someone suggested in terminal using sudo apt-cdrom add  have not
        tried that yet, as the lock file in /var/cache/apt/archives/ is
        open and I'm not sure how to close it. Anything downloaded now
        gets the error -can't lock on the Download Directory. 
        
        I asked the source of the software on DVD several times, and
        they remain silent! In the last few years I have not been able
        to download any file larger than 50 megs, because there does not
        seem to be a resume feature when downloading. If the download
        gets interrupted then I have to start completely over. 
        
        This is why I'm attempting to use CD/DVD REPOSITORIES. Early on
        these REPOSITORIES worked just fine, but around 6.04 they
        stopped working, with Synaptic preferring the Internet to
        Repositories on DVD or CD. 
        
        I've done many Internet searches in the last few days, and the
        information written on Ubuntu about this, is very vague, and OLD
        and the Links to further Explanations are BROKEN in every case I
        looked at, "404 Not Found comes up all the time".
        
        1) IS there an APT Command list somewhere that shows how APT has
        to be used with extensions like CDROM so I can have a list of
        what is on each DVD. 
        
        2) IS there a function that can figure out what all the
        dependencies are, and download these extra files just like in
        Synaptic, and switch to the Internet if the Files are not on the
        CD/DVD.
        
        3) IS there a function that can remove the programs and Files
        installed from a DVD Repository.
        
        4) IS there a Function that can add the Files found on a DVD
        REPOSITORY so that they show up in Synaptic, with info on where
        they came from. 
        
        Alfred!