cannot install with apt-get

[Dotan Cohen]

On 22/06/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Ah!  I think I finally see the light.  Dotan wanted something he didn't
> already have installed, but he didn't actually have the CD available.  It's
> never been a problem for me, because my CDs are always a release behind
> what I'm actually running, so the latest version of practically everything
> is on the net.

I do have the disk available, but it asks me to insert the disk about
50 times until it finishes, so I have to babysit the update and
installation.

> Still, ime, if you have multiple (http) sources specified for the same repo,
> it will check the second if the first is unavailable.  Apparently that
> isn't true if one repo is http and one's on CD - which seems worth a
> wishlist bug report.

Dotan Cohen