Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources
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On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:11 pm, Haines Brown wrote:
> > You have to update the local cache with what is available on the
> > remote site...
> >
> > apt-get update
> >
> > apt-get install sudo
> >
> > Should really do:
> >
> > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
> >
> > First and foremost...!
>
> OK, I removed the references to cdrom in my /etc/apt/sources.list,
> and things run more cleanly. As a test I did # aptitude install sudo,
> and it worked.
>
> Now I turn to your recommendation and run: aptitude update &&
> aptitude upgrade, and while the update seems to go, I'm told there's
> nothing to upgrade. I seriously doubt it:
>
> Reading Package Lists... 0%
> Reading Package Lists... 100%
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%
> Building Dependency Tree... 50%
> Building Dependency Tree... 50%
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information... 0%
> Reading extended state information... 0%
>
> Reading extended state information... Done
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be
> used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?]
>
> Is it your impression that the first group of responses suggest that
> apt-get update worked. But then why no packages needed to install. My
> installation was from a fairly old cdrom set of debian
> 3.0r1. Shouldn't there be an enormous about of material to upgrade?
>
> Haines
You need a source for Debian Security.Woody only gets updated through
the security site. i.e.
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
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Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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