Re: Install squeeze in VM but couldn't not find network-manager

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:47:08 +0530, emigrant wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 17:19 +0000, Camaleón wrote:

>> It should be there:
>> 
>> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/network-manager
>> 
>> Have you configured the "/etc/apt/sources.list" file to use the online
>> repos?
>> 
> 
> thanks for the reply.
> after seeing your reply i configured the source list by adding the
> following:
> 
> 
> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main deb
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb-src
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb
> http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib
> non-free
> 
> and then installed network-manager.

Good :-)

> but, this implies, i cannot configure the source list or install new
> necessary things to get up an internet connection *without* having an
> internet connection already?...?

Well, "network-manager" is not required to configure and use the network, 
the standard method (ifup) is still available.

Anyway, it seems "network-manager" package is included in CD#4:

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/list-cd/debian-testing-i386-CD-4.list.gz 

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón