On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 05:32:05PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: Hey there,
> I've been running Debian since 'sarge' was new -- other distributions > before that -- and on Saturday I finally made the move from 'etch' > to 'squeeze'. I reinstalled, using my eight DVDs that I had bought > from LinuxCollections.com. > > The install went beautifully, and my system is now very elegant, as > far as it exists. But I noticed that I used only Disk 1. > > Now I want to install e.g. Lilypond(the music typesetter) and > the Window Manager sawfish. But when I go e.g. > apt-cache search lilypond > (from a terminal, naturally) the prompt returns immediately. Same > for sawfish, and various other recondite programs. > > I am starting to feel that the database of all that is one these > disks is not available to me. Are the disks perhaps flawed? (hard > to believe, since the install went so well) Is there any way of > adjusting something so that apt-cache and aptitude work as well > as they did with my 'etch' DVDs? Did you add them to your sources.list with apt-cdrom? That is, # -d being mount point apt-cdrom -d=/cdrom add If that doesn't work, then please paste /etc/apt/sources.list so we can have a go at it, and hopefully figure out what's going on. Anyway, hope that solves your problem. -- Sincerely, Bjorn Michelsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110418223452.gc...@bmichelsen.no
