cannot install with apt-get

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> On 21/06/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> Please quote properly.  Quoting fixed to make sense...
>>
>> Terry Jacob wrote:
>>
>> > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 4:00 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Still, some apps, such as Amarok, require the installation disk. How
>> >> do I tell apt-get to install from the web only?
>> >>
>> > Quite easy, remove the CD as a source and update then install :)
>>
>> That won't help.  It requires the install CD because the version on the
>> CD is more recent than anything it can find on the web - which would mean
>> that the /etc/apt/sources.list configuration doesn't include any useful
>> repositories for Amarok on the web.  In fact, I get mine from:
>>
>> deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/amarok-14 dapper main
> 
> That's a repo for a single package? It'd be maddening to configure a
> repo for every package that one must install. 

No, it's a cleverly designed repo for KDE packages that were not included in
dapper.  You can use "all", iirc, instead of "amarok-14", to get all the
available packages.  

> And as soon as I removed 
> the lines corresponding to the cdrom, it installed fine from the web.

I don't see how that can happen.  The CD is just another repository.  If the
web repos have later versions than the CD, you should get the web versions.  
-- 
derek