Re: Newbie need help on upgrading/installing "current weekly snapshot CDs"
- From: Douglas Tutty <dtutty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:58:33 -0500
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:13:54PM -0800, aquamarine wrote:
Hi all,
I am a pure newbie on Linux/Debian coming from Windows world!
I downloaded just 3 of the 21 CDs from
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/ website,
booted the 1st CD and install testing Debian successfully.
The main point is that I found no way to install my other 2 CDs. By
the way, I cannot find: (1) Software Sources settings (2) Synaptic
Package Manager to update my system.
Another method I tried:
open a terminal, and typed:
(1) su -
(2) apt-get update
<<Message Start>>
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot CD
i386 Binary-1 20061127-10:21] etch Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot CD
i386 Binary-1 20061127-10:21] etch Release
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot CD
i386 Binary-1 20061127-10:21] etch/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot CD
i386 Binary-1 20061127-10:21] etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Get:1 http://debian.crosslink.net etch Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://debian.crosslink.net etch Release
Hit http://debian.crosslink.net etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release
Hit http://debian.crosslink.net etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources
Fetched 2B in 5s (0B/s)
Reading package lists...
<<Message End>>
Is there any way to edit a config file (something like that) by
subsequent snapshot CDs and web links/ download sites as that of
Xubuntu/Ubuntu's Software Sources program???
Welcome to the club.
Quick rundown:
dpkg does the actual installation of individual packages
apt fetches the packages
various front ends keep track of package dependancies and may
keep track of which packages were only installed to
satisfy those dependancies.
aptitude
synaptic
apt-get
Personally, I use aptitude.
The sources of the packages are listed in /etc/apt/sources.list
You cannot add a cd directly to sources.list. Use apt-cdrom add
and it will read the package list off the cd. Do that for the
CDs you have.
Synaptic package manager is contained in a package. It may not
be on the first CD since it uses the X window system. Aptitude,
a text-based manager may be on it.
After you've used apt-cdrom to add the CDs you have, before you get too
far into deep water, you should read the debian-reference (apt-get
debian-reference). It will answer many of the questions you will ask
yourself as you learn about Debian.
Good luck.
Doug.
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