I'm running a Ubuntu server (9.0.4 'Jaunty') as a VMware image.
It's a real pain on the odd occasion I need to install a new package to have to fish out the install CD-ROM, and make it available to the VMware image so I can continue the package install.
Is there any way to take the original installation media out of the list of source packages – I'm assuming all packages will be available on the internet.
Thanks.
Best Answer
Yes, you can remove the CD-ROM (or or original installation media) from the
sources.list
Edit the
sources.list
file with the following command:And near the top, comment out the line that looks like this:
(comment is a hash (
#
) - so pop one of these at the start of thedeb cdrom: ...
line)Press Ctrl+X to exit the nano text editor, pressing y to save your changes
Then finally you'll need to run:
To update your package lists.