Trouble installing second debian cd

[alancooney]

I've downloaded the second cd, and I want to install all the packages on it.

To do this, I have tried 'apt-cdrom add' and 'apt-get update' and then 'apt-get install kde' to which it listed a whole load of dependencies, every one of which wasn't found. So I browsed the cd, and found abiword so I tried 'apt-get install abiword' and ran into the same problem.

Next, I tried dselect. I selected cd-rom as the location, and then when it asked for the position of the files I tried the default (debian/dists/stable) and pool/main but both didn't work properly, so it asked me to find a bunch of other files. The first of which was the Packages and Packages.gz files, which I found in debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386 so I gave that location, and then I tried unstable aswell to no avail.

I then repeated all of this using another copy of the cd that I burned at 1x speed.

Still, I can't get the programmes installed. Can anyone please recomend what to do?

Thanks in advance,

Alan

[dreamboat]

Try apt-setup
Select cdrom, then it will scan as many discs as you want.


dreamboat

[mindblast]

Try net install if you have internet connection. You have to download something about 50 mb, put it on a cd and then get everithing you need on the debian servers.

[farslayer]

According to Jigdo some of the files for abiword are located on CD 4...

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r1 "Sarge" - Official i386 Binary-2 CD - [ List contents ]
pool/main/a/abiword/abiword-gnome_2.2.7-3sarge2_i386.deb
pool/main/a/abiword/abiword-common_2.2.7-3sarge2_all.deb
pool/main/a/abiword/abiword_2.2.7-3sarge2_i386.deb
/debian-cd/3.1_r1/i386/jigdo-cd/debian-31r1-i386-binary-2.jigdo - 20 Dec 2005

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r1 "Sarge" - Official i386 Binary-4 CD - [ List contents ]
pool/main/a/abiword/abiword-plugins-gnome_2.2.7-3sarge2_i386.deb
pool/main/a/abiword/abiword-plugins_2.2.7-3sarge2_i386.deb
pool/main/a/abiword/abiword-help_2.2.7-3sarge2_all.deb
pool/main/a/abiword/abiword-doc_2.2.7-3sarge2_all.deb
pool/main/a/abiword/xfonts-abi_2.2.7-3sarge2_all.deb
/debian-cd/3.1_r1/i386/jigdo-cd/debian-31r1-i386-binary-4.jigdo - 20 Dec 2005

so you may need that as well in order to install abiword.

realistically if you have a fast connection you are better off pointing your apt sources to an internet repository. then when you say apt-get install abiword it will go out and download the latest version of that application for your distro, and any and all dependancies then install them. no more CD downloading, no more CD swapping every time you want to install something.

apt HOW-To
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap.../index.en.html