Richard Owlett composed on 2018-02-24 10:48 (UTC-0600): > I had just done a minimal (command line only) install of Stretch from > the first DVD of the complete set rather than using netinst to conserve > bandwidth. The install as usual was successful.
> I wish to install a package from the repository - it's not on DVD1. > I added the line > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib > to sources.list while commenting out the line referencing CDROM. > I attempted to run "apt-get update". > It *FAILED* > The message was the source I wanted was being ignored. > WHY? Mirror problems in .us.??? Do you get also get failure if you s/apt-get/apt/g ? -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
