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 (<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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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:
> 
>
> 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
>
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:
> 
>
> 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:
> 
>
> 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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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 remarked to all ...
>
> I went to install abiword using synaptic, and it wanted a CD-ROM?!!!
> Can't it fetch the file from the Internet??? -Pete
>

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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"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:
> 
>
> 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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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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