Using apt-get

[Mark Street]

apt-cdrom .....  but why...

On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Lincoln Peters wrote:

> I finally set up a box running Debian Linux 3.0r1.  However, while selecting
> the packages to be installed, I discovered that at least one of my CD's
> contains errors that make some packages unreadable.  I am unsure how these
> errors occurred, and so I cannot easily correct the problem.
>
> I've noticed that whenever a new version of a package is available on
> Debian's security site, apt-get installs that instead of the version on the
> CD.  Is there some way to tell apt-get to fall back to an FTP server if a
> package on the CD is unreadable?
>
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