forcing apt to not look at the CDROM

der.hans plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:00:24 -0700 (MST)


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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