Re: hwo to find the cd Number for a given package
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:18:34AM -0700, belahcene abdelkader wrote:
> Hi every body
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> I want to know what is the number of a Sarge Cd for a
> given package ?
> Sure that apt-get knows it, because when I want to
> install a package it asks for a CD.
> I looked in the Debian Site to find the content of
> CD, I did't find, is there only the iso images ?
> Yes, with the search procedure you can find the
> package , but not the number of the Cd which contains
> it.
>
> as an example: the lyx word processor is in the sarge
> package, But not in 10 (ten) first that I downloaded.
>
> If I knew the Cd, I'd download only that CD.
>
> The problem of downloading directly the package can
> give a dependance problem it s better to use apt-get,
> instead of dpkg
>
If you can download cdroms, why can't you set up your sources.list so
you can apt-get from debian.org or a mirror site?
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