On 9/28/24 13:48, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 09/28/2024 12:13 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 11:35:34AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:Underlying Problem: Debian is *TOO* good and reliable ;}! 32 bit Debian 9.13 has given yeoman service. But I want some features that weren't available in the Jurassic. Having a low data cap, I went to local library and downloaded [ seamonkey-2.53.19.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 ]. This morning's install was straight forward and relatively uneventful. For it to be "functional" I need some tools I've had ~forever: 1. caja-admin to have "open as administrator". 2. arandr to have a screen big enough and bright enough to see. In Synaptic I attempted to connect to an online repository. It told me: > The repository 'cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 12.7.0 _Bookworm_ - Official > amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20240831-10:40] bookworm Release' does > not have a Release file. I saw no way to tell it to go online. Synaptic's small dim "Help" didn't ;{ I haven't installed Debian programs in eons - What/where should I be reading? TIARichard, Read /etc/apt/sources.list Potentially, if you install from a DVD and do not have immediate network access, the /etc/apt/sources.list contains a DVD entry as the first line and (possibly) commented out lines below for the main Debian repositories. That's what the message suggests to me: if the DVD is the first line and is not commented out, comment it out / delete it then apt update and try again. All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater (amacater@debian.org)Think you got it. I has only a single line:deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 12.7.0 _Bookworm_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20240831-10:40]/ bookworm contrib main non-free-firmwareWon't be able to try the "apt update" until tonight or tomorrow. If it doesn't work I'll compare the Debian 9 sources.list to see if I can interpolate adequately.
For comparison, here is mine:
eben@cerberus:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware
non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security contrib main
non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates contrib main non-free
non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-proposed-updates contrib main
non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports contrib main non-free
non-free-firmware
(Each is one line starting with "deb". Wrap happens.)
eben@cerberus:~$ grep -v -e '^$' -e '^#' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb-multimedia.list:deb
https://www.deb-multimedia.org bookworm main non-free
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mellanox_mlnx_ofed.list:deb
http://linux.mellanox.com/public/repo/mlnx_ofed/24.04-0.7.0.0/debian12.1/$(ARCH)
./
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/tor.list:deb
[signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg]
https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org bookworm main
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