Desktop cd and stuff like ndiswrapper-utils.

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:31:17AM -0400, Andrew Zajac wrote:
> On 5/26/06, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >This is not in fact correct; as of quite recently, we include these
> >packages in an apt archive on the desktop CD so that they can easily be
> >installed after installing the system to the hard disk. (If you leave
> >the CD in after installation, then you'll even get a popup dialog at
> >first login asking you if you want to launch Synaptic and scan the CD.)
> 
> That's excellent!  It needs to be better documented, though.  Or, at least
> that apt archive should be added to the sources list that gets installed
> onto the system (or on the live cd itself).  That way, the user would just
> try to install the package(s) the conventional ways and get prompted for the
> Desktop cd.

I did want to do this, but it was too tight up against the Dapper
release freeze; I'll do it in Edgy. It should go in the Dapper release
notes or something like that, I think.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]