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Installation from Internet vs CD?
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| I went to install abiword using synaptic, and it wanted a CD-ROM?!!!
Can't it fetch the file from the Internet???
-Pete
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| Andreas Janssen 2007-05-01, 7:13 am |
| Pete (<Pete@nospam.com> ) wrote:
> I went to install abiword using synaptic, and it wanted a CD-ROM?!!!
> Can't it fetch the file from the Internet???
By default apt will prefer local media. Maybe moving the server entries
to the top of your sources.list and running apt-get update is
sufficient, if that doesn't work remove the cdrom entries and run
apt-get update. You can put back the discs anytime using apt-cdrom add.
regards
Andreas Janssen
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| thunder 2007-05-01, 7:13 am |
| On Tue, 01 May 2007 10:44:37 +0000, Pete wrote:
> I went to install abiword using synaptic, and it wanted a CD-ROM?!!!
> Can't it fetch the file from the Internet??? -Pete
You haven't changed your /etc/apt/sources.list, have you? man
sources.list should get you going.
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| Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Pete (<Pete@nospam.com> ) wrote:
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> By default apt will prefer local media. Maybe moving the server entries
> to the top of your sources.list and running apt-get update is
> sufficient, if that doesn't work remove the cdrom entries and run
> apt-get update. You can put back the discs anytime using apt-cdrom add.
>
> regards
> Andreas Janssen
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I hate to be a bother... but could you spell out the commands, line by
line? I don't know much of what I'm doing, but will learn from this
exercise.
-Pete
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| thunder wrote:
> On Tue, 01 May 2007 10:44:37 +0000, Pete wrote:
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> You haven't changed your /etc/apt/sources.list, have you? man
> sources.list should get you going.
Hell, I tried the console a bit, and I get this lecture that I am not in
the sudoer's file, and the incident will be reported. What now?
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| thunder wrote:
> On Tue, 01 May 2007 10:44:37 +0000, Pete wrote:
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> You haven't changed your /etc/apt/sources.list, have you? man
> sources.list should get you going.
PS: I AM using the root password. I guess it doesn't match with my name,
but I gave it no other name!
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| thunder 2007-05-01, 7:13 am |
| On Tue, 01 May 2007 11:22:53 +0000, Pete wrote:
> thunder wrote:
> Hell, I tried the console a bit, and I get this lecture that I am not in
> the sudoer's file, and the incident will be reported. What now?
First, in a terminal or console:
"su root"
give root's password when prompted
"adduser your_user_name sudo"
That should add you to the group sudo.
"exit" will return you to your_user_name.
When using sudo, when you are prompted for a password, sudo wants your
password, not root's. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update,
then apt-get install abiword. That should do it.
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| Pete wrote:
> I went to install abiword using synaptic, and it wanted a CD-ROM?!!!
> Can't it fetch the file from the Internet???
> -Pete
Of course it can, however if the version on the cd you installed from is
the same version that is on the internet it will default to the cd.
To disable ever using the cd , edit the /etc/apt/sources.list and # out the
cd reference. From a terminal sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list
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| Andreas Janssen 2007-05-01, 1:13 pm |
| Pete (<Pete@nospam.com> ) wrote:
> Andreas Janssen wrote:
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> I hate to be a bother... but could you spell out the commands, line by
> line? I don't know much of what I'm doing, but will learn from this
> exercise.
become root (e.g. using su)
open the file /etc/apt/sources.list with a texteditor (e.g.
nano /etc/apt/sources.list)
remove the cdrom lines
save the file (ctrl+o enter in nano)
exit the editor (ctrl+x in nano)
run apt-get update
regards
Andreas Janssen
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PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270
Registered Linux User #267976
http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps-sarge.html
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| sk8-365 2007-05-01, 1:13 pm |
| Pete remarked to all ...
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> I went to install abiword using synaptic, and it wanted a CD-ROM?!!!
> Can't it fetch the file from the Internet??? -Pete
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Pete, Make your list look like mine on the top lines as far as the "#"
go for the CD (it's word wrapped):
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST
# Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST
Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib contrib
non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib contrib
non-free
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sk8-365
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"thunder" <thunder@TAKEOUTgti.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.05.01.11.11.43@TAKEOUTgti.net...
> On Tue, 01 May 2007 10:44:37 +0000, Pete wrote:
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> You haven't changed your /etc/apt/sources.list, have you? man
> sources.list should get you going.
No, haven't changed anything. Don't know enough, YET. My beginners book is
about Ubuntu. No I have to buy one on Debian.
I was however disturbed when it denied me root user status, and threatened
to report me. I don't know why it did that. I used the same password when
installing. Geez. :-)
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| thunder 2007-05-01, 1:13 pm |
| On Tue, 01 May 2007 09:31:53 -0400, Pete wrote:
> No, haven't changed anything. Don't know enough, YET. My beginners book
> is about Ubuntu. No I have to buy one on Debian. I was however disturbed
> when it denied me root user status, and threatened to report me. I don't
> know why it did that. I used the same password when installing. Geez.
> :-)
As I said in another post, when using sudo, the password prompt is for
your user password, not root's password. As for being reported, relax,
it's not going to report you to the FBI. It's just going to make a note
of the login failure in the machine's logs.
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| sk8-365 2007-05-01, 1:13 pm |
| Pete remarked to all ...
> Hell, I tried the console a bit, and I get this lecture that I am not in
> the sudoer's file, and the incident will be reported. What now?
Slow down friend, take a breath. The "report" whento the administrator
- that's you. Don't worry.
Step 1: open a terminal
Step 2: type the following
su root (put in root's password)
Step 3: type in the name of your favorite editor
<editor you like> /etc/apt/sources.list
Step 4: comment out the CD lines by placing a hash at the start of the
line - this is a hash ---> #
Step 5: save the file
Step 6: in the terminal run this command
apt-get update
Step 7: open Synaptic - may as well do so in the root terminal you're
using. Goes like this
synaptic (press Enter)
Step 8: add abiword - which you know how to do.
Step 9: exit root, exit yorself from terminal, have fun using Abiword.
After you deal with that, then handle the next thing: sudo.
Dashing out to work ... have a good day.
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sk8-365
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| > First, in a terminal or console:
> "su root"
> give root's password when prompted
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> "adduser your_user_name sudo"
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> That should add you to the group sudo.
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> "exit" will return you to your_user_name.
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> When using sudo, when you are prompted for a password, sudo wants your
> password, not root's. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update,
> then apt-get install abiword. That should do it.
Thanks. This was the clearest and most helpful answer. You should be a
consultant.
-Pete
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| Rodney 2007-05-02, 1:14 pm |
| On Tue, 01 May 2007 11:22:53 +0000, Pete wrote:
> thunder wrote:
> Hell, I tried the console a bit, and I get this lecture that I am not in
> the sudoer's file, and the incident will be reported. What now?
One possible choice. Go back to that terminal and type man sudo. That
will display the manual page for the sudo command. In the ubuntu that you
are familiar with, you are automagically put in the sudoers file when you
install, Debian does not do that by default and with good reason. Some of
us feel it is an unacceptable security risk to use sudo the way ubuntu
does (allowing ALL commands). You get to make the choice for how you want
to use your system and what level of security is necessary in your
location. It might not matter much for a desktop system which only you
have physical access to and never goes on the 'Net but most server admins
don't want a lot of sudoing.
You may also want to read the man page for the su command, man su. Allows
you to become 'root' for the length of the terminal session, until you
exit, which you should do when you are done doing the actions that require
root.
If you are coming from Windows it could take some time to become
accustomed to not doing normal computing with all the rights of the
superuser, root (admin account). It must not be a bad idea to do things
this way, even MS is going toward limited user rights and the security
this helps with in their newer operating systems.
Hope this helps, sometimes those manual pages are hard to understand, keep
at it, lots of good info and it eventually starts to come together and
make sense.
Rodney
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| Linonut 2007-05-05, 1:13 pm |
| After takin' a swig o' grog, Andreas Janssen belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> become root (e.g. using su)
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> open the file /etc/apt/sources.list with a texteditor (e.g.
> nano /etc/apt/sources.list)
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> remove the cdrom lines
Here, I would not remove the cdrom lines. I will comment them out (put
a hash mark, #, in front of them.)
I also add a comment with the date, a la:
# ca 05/05/2007
# Commented these out temporarily to fix my problem.
That way, when I see the change 5 months later I remember what the heck
I was doing.
> save the file (ctrl+o enter in nano)
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> exit the editor (ctrl+x in nano)
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> run apt-get update
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