mathew, Are you sure your download of the Kubuntu image is good?
$ sudo apt-cdrom add Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/ Unmounting CD-ROM Waiting for disc... Please insert a Disc in the drive and press enter Mounting CD-ROM... Identifying.. [447cb85e73e74ab7dc77d29271638b9b-2] Scanning disc for index files.. Found 2 package indexes, 0 source indexes, 0 translation indexes and 1 signatures This disc is called: 'Kubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100427)' Copying package lists...gpgv: Signature made Tue 27 Apr 2010 03:14:02 AM PDT using DSA key ID FBB75451 gpgv: Good signature from "Ubuntu CD Image Automatic Signing Key <cdim...@ubuntu.com>" Reading Package Indexes... Done Writing new source list Source list entries for this disc are: deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100427)]/ lucid main restricted Unmounting CD-ROM... Repeat this process for the rest of the CDs in your set. W: Skipping non-exisiting file /cdrom/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages W: Skipping non-exisiting file /cdrom/dists/lucid/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages W: Skipping non-exisiting file /cdrom/dists/lucid/restricted/binary-i386/Packages W: Skipping non-exisiting file /cdrom/dists/lucid/restricted/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages $ grep "^deb cdrom" /etc/apt/sources.list deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100427)]/ lucid main restricted $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done [SNIP] 719 upgraded, 65 newly installed, 147 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/387MB of archives. After this operation, 240MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? $ apt-cache policy apt apt: Installed: 0.7.23.1ubuntu2 Candidate: 0.7.25.3ubuntu7 Version table: 0.7.25.3ubuntu7 0 500 cdrom://Kubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100427) lucid/main Packages *** 0.7.23.1ubuntu2 0 500 http://denisovich karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Admittedly, this is with a karmic ubuntu desktop install, but which desktop environment it is installed under should not matter to apt. -- Steve Beattie <sbeat...@ubuntu.com> http://NxNW.org/~steve/ -- requires uncompressed Packages files on CDs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255545 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs