Glitch in installing 9.04 as a Clean Install
lee
leewen at primus.ca
Mon Jul 6 12:25:05 UTC 2009
Alfred 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!
>
>
> just one question after you put each cd/dvd in did you do a reload the repo list. As synaotic uses a data base stored on the computer it read that data base for files.
>
Lee
>
>
>
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