Installing and newbies

[Derek Broughton]

Pete wrote:

> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
> wrote:
> 
>> You shouldn't have _needed_ to comment it out (OK, _I_ comment it out
>> too, because I rarely actually have a copy of the CD I originally
>> installed from
>> available).  If you only want something that's newer in the repositories
>> than on the CD, it shouldn't afaik ask you to insert the CD.
> 
> 
> However, IIRC if the version on the CD is the _same_ as the version in the
> repository, I think it  goes for the CD.

Absolutely.  Which for the majority of Ubuntu users is probably still a Good
Thing.
-- 
derek