On Mon 03 Feb 2020 at 16:30:25 -0000, Curt wrote: > On 2020-02-03, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> Aren't any sources.list experts present who could keep me from guessing > >> around ? > > > > You are doing ok without us so-called experts. > > > > Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get > update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs > > was the error message he received earlier (amongst others). > > Is that what he did (use apt-cdrom) to add the local repository? I can't > find that critical detail somehow in the thread.
No, Tamar Nirenberg did not add a cdrom://... line in his sources.list. Note the date that goes with it - 2019-11-16T10:36. It would have been added and commented out by the installer. He has uncommented it. This has not led to the outcome he desired but, as I said, it makes the screen output more complicated than it need be. My procedure, when testing a sources.list, is to have only a single operative line. -- Brian.