Re: Trouble with apt-cache and aptitude(PROBLEM SOLVED!)
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:34:52AM +0200, Bj?rn Michelsen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 05:32:05PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
>
> > I am starting to feel that the database of all that is one these
> > disks is not available to me. Are the disks perhaps flawed? (hard
> > to believe, since the install went so well) Is there any way of
> > adjusting something so that apt-cache and aptitude work as well
> > as they did with my 'etch' DVDs?
>
> Did you add them to your sources.list with apt-cdrom? That is,
>
> # -d being mount point
> apt-cdrom -d=/cdrom add
No I did not. But I've just done so, with your
suggestion just above -- did it with all my eight
disks, as the output of the command suggested --
and voila! my sawfish and my Lilypond are now
installed.
My heartiest thanks to Mr Michelsen!! Indeed, I
think it is something of a miracle that I posted
this query at 5pm EDT(USA) and within 1.5 hours
I received a kind and cogent response that solved
my problem.
A general point, for the wonderful Debian developers:
I feel that this apt-cdrom action should have been done
automatically at the install, as it was with my
etch DVDs.
Back to playing with my CUPS, which is still giving
me trouble<g>!
Best wishes to all, with a special tip of the hat to Mr Michelsen!
Alan McConnell, in Silver Spring MD
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