How to use Debian ISOs as package sources in apt?
On Friday, 09 May, 2014 03:39 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
Most of what you will want to install (statistically speaking) is on
the first [Debian] DVD. Everything you need to later install from the
other DVDs is on the first DVD. You can always install packages from
the other DVDs just using the iso files - so you may never need to
use, or burn (if you do use) the other DVD iso files. Kind regards
How exactly do you do that?
That is, do you mount those ISOs as DVDs and then point sources.list to
them?
Also, how do you make sure that apt checks that the packages on the DVDs
are current, and retrieves the packages from the online mirrors,
instead, if the aren't.
I want to be able to safely use both the online mirrors and the DVDs in
the same sources.list file without having to worry that I may be
installing outdated software (I have a slow Internet connection, so
getting the big packages from the DVDs might help).
Thanks :)
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