Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:23:07PM -0500, Haines Brown said > Greg, > > Your information of great help, but only leads to more questions. > > 1. Where does one read about such specifics as the need to have a >security source to do an upgrade? No, the security source is for security updates.

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
Greg, Your information of great help, but only leads to more questions. 1. Where does one read about such specifics as the need to have a security source to do an upgrade? What I've seen on apt says relatively little. 3. The address didn't work, and I also tried a couple others. When I

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:11 pm, Haines Brown wrote: > > You have to update the local cache with what is available on the > > remote site... > > > > apt-get update > > > > apt-get install sudo > > > > Should really do: > > > > apt-get update && a

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Jakob Lell
On Saturday 01 November 2003 19:49, Haines Brown wrote: ... > I did as you said, literally (commented out just the two proxy lines), > and it may have gone better. This time I piped the output, so know I > captured the entire file. It starts with a lot of this: > > Err cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
> You have to update the local cache with what is available on the remote > site... > > apt-get update > > apt-get install sudo > > Should really do: > > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade > > First and foremost...! OK, I removed the references to cdrom in my /etc/apt/sources.list, and things

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 08:31, Haines Brown wrote: > I installed debian from cdrom, but now want to use apt-get (actually, > aptitude) to get on-line packages. To do this I ran netselect-apt > woody in the /etc/apt directory, and as a result built a > /etc/apt/sources list that had a US and a non-US

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
Rob, I think it's comming along: > > If so, apparently the following is > > wrong/insufficient:=20 > >=20 > > Acquire > > { > > Retries "0"; > > // I added this next subsection: > > http=20 > > { > > Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3128";; > > Proxy::http.us.debian.org "DIRECT"; // Speci

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Jakob Lell
On Saturday 01 November 2003 18:38, Haines Brown wrote: > Jakob, a little light is begging to shine. In my reading I did not see > anything about apt-cdrom, and so had to guess what had to be added to > the config file. I guessed, wrong, it seems. > > > >   Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main P

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:23:27PM -0500, Haines Brown said > > > > Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages > > > Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1). - connect=20 > > > (111 Connection refused) > > > Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Release > > > Could

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
Jakob, a little light is begging to shine. In my reading I did not see anything about apt-cdrom, and so had to guess what had to be added to the config file. I guessed, wrong, it seems. > >   Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages > >     Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1).

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
> > Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages > > Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1). - connect=20 > > (111 Connection refused) > > Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Release > > Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1). - connect=20 > > (111

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Jakob Lell
On Saturday 01 November 2003 16:23, Haines Brown wrote: > Well, no, at least not now when I try it. I was only looking at the > end of all the response, for I can't seem to copy/paste from an > xterm. However, this time did an eshell in emacs and saved the buffer > that resulted from the apt-get up

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:23:38AM -0500, Haines Brown said > > apt-get update has the *exact* same error? update should try to go out > > on the network and get the missing package lists from your debian > > mirror. > > Well, no, at least not now when I try it. I was only looking at the > end of

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
> > OK, so next I want to get the sudo package and run: > > > > # apt-get install sudo > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.br.debian.org > > woody/main Packages > > > > (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.br.de

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:31:04AM -0500, Haines Brown said > I installed debian from cdrom, but now want to use apt-get (actually, > aptitude) to get on-line packages. To do this I ran netselect-apt > woody in the /etc/apt directory, and as a result built a > /etc/apt/sources list that had a US an

Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
I installed debian from cdrom, but now want to use apt-get (actually, aptitude) to get on-line packages. To do this I ran netselect-apt woody in the /etc/apt directory, and as a result built a /etc/apt/sources list that had a US and a non-US site uncommented. OK, so next I want to get the sudo pa