Comment 21 for bug 255545

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 <email address hidden>"
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
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http://NxNW.org/~steve/