Manish: While you have a good point, I have already given him the iso. If he has problems then I will tell him to burn it to a CD.
On 9/28/08, Manish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ramnarayan.K wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Manish <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> > On 9/28/08, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> If you burn it to a CD and mount it in your friend's comp, then a >> dialog >> box appears showing that a signed repository has been detected and do >> you want to import it. If you wish to continue, the packages are >> copied >> back to the archives and the index is also updated. >> >> >> am wondering if my synaptic did not get updated because the iso was >> kept on an external hd , rather than a cd ?? and i guess will need to >> try your solution ,or see if synaptic can read an iso file thats not >> on a cd / dvd ?? >> >> thanks >> ram > If you use the ISO, then in that case also the Synaptic gets updates > IMHO. Writing to CD has just the benefit that it gets detected as a repo > and is imported automatically. Good for newbies. > > Thanks, > Manish Sinha > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in