Using apt-get

Lincoln Peters lincoln_peters at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 4 12:13:03 PST 2003


I finally set up a box running Debian Linux 3.0r1.  However, while selecting 
the packages to be installed, I discovered that at least one of my CD's 
contains errors that make some packages unreadable.  I am unsure how these 
errors occurred, and so I cannot easily correct the problem.

I've noticed that whenever a new version of a package is available on 
Debian's security site, apt-get installs that instead of the version on the 
CD.  Is there some way to tell apt-get to fall back to an FTP server if a 
package on the CD is unreadable?

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