Installing and newbies

[Pete]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Neil Winchurst <neil at holsdev.vispa.com>
wrote:

> And the install CD _should_ be in sources.list by default.
>
> Why is that? If I am going to install something I don't want the
> version that is on the install CD because it might by now be out of
> date. I want the version from the repositories. Or am I missing
> something here?


If the CD is in sources.list, it will only ask you for it if the version on
the CD is the same as the version in the repository. Unless you specify
otherwise in (I think) apt.conf, it will always look for the highest
numbered version.

-p.
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