needing the CD after installation for apt-get installs bugs me

[David Williamson]

Thanks, Tom, that was too easy! 

david w

Tom Hilbert wrote:

>I think you can comment it out in your /apt/sources.lst file.  
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>On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 16:05:37 -0400, David Williamson
><nospam1 at nullcutter.com> wrote:
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>>Why do we need the CD to install some packages after initial
>>installation of Ubuntu, when the latest is always on the net?  Libranet
>>does this too, and it's absolutely infuriating <to me> to have to hunt
>>down the install CD only to find it's not used.  Is there a way to
>>change this behaviour?
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>>example:
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>>apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird
>>Reading Package Lists... Done
>>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>>Suggested packages:
>>  mozilla-thunderbird-offline mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind
>>mozilla-thunderbird-inspector mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail
>>Recommended packages:
>>  xprt-xprintorg
>>The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>  mozilla-thunderbird
>>0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
>>Need to get 0B/11.3MB of archives.
>>After unpacking 33.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
>>Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled
>> 'Ubuntu 4.10 _Warty Warthog_ - Preview i386 Binary-1 (20040929)'
>>in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter
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>>I suppose if what's on the CD is the same as what's available via apt it
>>might make sense, but since I've got fast internet, I can usually
>>install the app before I can find the CD ;-)
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>>Thanks --
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>>david williamson
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