How do I clean up the Software Update cache?

[Barry Premeaux]

I finally found the problem.  Checked in Preferences and Other
Software Sources.  Found the CD's listed there with the associate
boxes checked.  I didn't add them, but after clearing the checks, it
now runs fine.  I've never had that happen before.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Monday 13 January 2014 23:55:39 Barry Premeaux did opine:
>
>> I had a couple *.iso disks in my CD/DVD drive recently.  I had looked
>> at the images, but did not install.  Now, i have a software update
>> prompt and when I go to install, I am asked to put the two iso's in
>> the drive.  If I cancel the request and try to continue with the
>> updates, it fails to complete them.  My google efforts have failed to
>> produce a solution to the problem.  How do I clean this up so that I
>> can get back to regular updates?  I am running ubuntu 13.04.
>
> Probably fixable to becoming root and editing /etc/apt/sources.list to
> remove the local optical drive line entirely.  Or you can put a # sign as
> the first character, which I believe does the same thing.
>
> Cheers, Gene
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