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

[John]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:


> 
> There are only a few packages on the CD which are not installed by default,
> and they are provided so that they are available to users who do not have
> Internet access.  Several of them are provided for the purpose of
> establishing an Internet connection where special software is needed.
> 
> The ideal solution would be to cache them on the hard disk so that the CD is
> not needed; I think that Colin has looked at this, but it is non-trivial to
> implement at this time.
> 

Am I naive to think this would do it?
atp-get -yd install ....

For those not wanting them there, removal:
apt-get clean