8.04 update files

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Thu Apr 30 11:23:26 UTC 2009


>     Yes it appears that man apt-get does not give any details. It does 
> appear that apt-get update uses /etc/apt/sources.list to tell it which 
> apt sources to check. And I found the bad entry and commented it out. 
> That fixed the CD-Rom problem.

The entries are not 'bad' - The messages you where seeing where trying 
to tell you (not so clearly I admit) "I need access to your installation 
CD to complete this command. Please insert that CD and try again"

If you rerun your update command, with those lines in *and* the CD in 
your machine, then it would run just fine.

( Actually, I suspect had you done this from the GUI instead of the 
command line then the error messages would have been clearer )

cheers Chris




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