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

[Darren Critchley]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 04:05:37PM -0400, David Williamson 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.
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>It is used; apt does not ask for the CD unless it contains the latest
>version of the package you requested.
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>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.
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>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.
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This is actually easily remedied by the end user, go in to Synaptic and 
remove the CD as one of the sources - it is the first in the list.
After that, Ubuntu will not go back to the CD to get a package.

Darren