forcing apt to not look at the CDROM

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Author: der.hans
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Subject: forcing apt to not look at the CDROM
Am 05. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Kirt Karl so:

> Just had a problem for the first time last night. I was apt-getting some
> software on a remote machine last night and I ran into a .deb that asked
> me to insert the first CDROM of the install series. Is there a way to tell
> apt to only look at the remote repository? Can't find a corresponding line
> in sources.list. Any help would be great!


Once you've commented out the line in /etc/apt/sources.list and run "apt-get
update" there should no longer be a list for the CD.

update is destructive to previous package lists.

ciao,

der.hans
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