Cd and DVD

[marcelo_fontenele]

Good morning everyone,

One friend of mine gave me a copy of Kubuntu 7.04 in cd. I made the installation and four days later, he gave me a copy of the DVD version, so i've done the installation again to see the differences, but looks like the same time of installation and i had to download all the extra packages from the internet. So, what's the benefit of DVD?

Thanks in advance

Marcelo

[Pendragon]

Re: Cd and DVD

As far as I can tell both the CD and DVD will give you the same basic installation which on the face of it makes the DVD a waste of download bandwidth.

I usually download and install Mandriva and find the DVD version of this much better, not only do you get a choice of KDE or Gnome (or both) but you can point and click any package you wish and the installer will add it to the installation at install time. You can also save the selection to a floppy disk (remember them) and use it to install identical setups on other computers, handy if you have a number you wish to set up in one go.

However, and back to Kubuntu, I have found a 'cludge' or workaround that allows you to install most programs from the DVD without downloading them again and wasting even more bandwith.

First open the Adept Package Manager from the 'K' menu, once the manager has opened click the 'Adept' to open the menu and click 'Manage Repositories' to open the 'Software Sources' window.
On the 'Kubuntu Software' tab untick everything, click the 'Third-Party Software' tab and click the button [Add CD-ROM], insert the DVD in the drive and wait until it automounts and is scanned by Adept. Once the DVD has appeared in the Software Sources window click the [Close] button and next the [Reload] button (note: at this point the manager may crash, don't worry it will recover if restarted). As far as I can work out any package you install from this point on will come from the DVD and not from the internet.

Not the best way of doing it and I have no doubt users better acquainted with Kubuntu will suggest a quicker way, but it works for me.

[Pendragon]

Re: Cd and DVD

And just to prove myself right there is an easy way if your happier at the command line, just type in
sudo apt-cdrom add
and hit [Return] to do roughtly the same thing as the above.

The only difference is the line for the DVD is added above the lines for getting packages from the internet so if it can't find it on the DVD it will download it from the internet. My method removes all reference to the on-line packages.

[eriefisher]

Re: Cd and DVD

This is how I dealt with bandwidth problems:

In a konsole type:
sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_backup
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-cdrom add
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install (your apps)

This will clear apt, add the disc to the source.list then you can install from the disc and it won't look to the web for apps. When you done with the disc replace your sources.list.

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list_backup /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update

eriefisher

[marcelo_fontenele]

Re: Cd and DVD

Thanks for the tip, works great here

Bye

Marcelo