Using apt-get

[E Frank Ball]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 01:26:31PM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:
} The package set I need adds up to about 144MB.  I could probably handle that 
} on a 56k modem.

If it is just one bad package:

Comment out the cdrom in /etc/apt/sources.list, 
do an apt-get update,
do a "apt-get install packagename" to get just that package off the network,
uncomment the cdrom in /etc/apt/sources.list, 
do an apt-get update.

Don't forget about our site:
deb ftp://mirror.nblug.org/debian/ stable main 

I only make CD#1 myself, then everything else comes off the net, but I
have DSL.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com