On Fri 17 Mar 2017 at 15:29:58 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 03/17/2017 11:15 AM, songbird wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
As I have limited bandwidth, I install from DVDs.
Also I frequently experiment with various options by doing a fresh
install to a different partition.
It is annoying to keep re-scanning a set of 13 DVDs.
Where is the information stored?
/etc/apt/sources.list is obvious, but where is the data about contents
of each DVD stored?
man apt-get
It implies *BUT DOES _NOT_ STATE* the all the requested data is in the
/var/lib/apt directory.
Stop pissing about. Is the data in /var/lib/apt or not?