On Fri 17 Mar 2017 at 15:29:58 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/17/2017 11:15 AM, songbird wrote: > >Richard Owlett wrote: > >>As I have limited bandwidth, I install from DVDs. > >>Also I frequently experiment with various options by doing a fresh > >>install to a different partition. > >>It is annoying to keep re-scanning a set of 13 DVDs. > >>Where is the information stored? > >>/etc/apt/sources.list is obvious, but where is the data about contents > >>of each DVD stored? > > > > man apt-get > > It implies *BUT DOES _NOT_ STATE* the all the requested data is in the > /var/lib/apt directory.
Stop pissing about. Is the data in /var/lib/apt or not?