Using apt-get

[Karsten M. Self]

on Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:40:29PM -0800, Mark Street (jet at sonic.net) wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> >

> apt-cdrom .....  but why...

Actually, that's the answer to a question _not_ asked in Lincoln's post.

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