From: nntp.mbourne@spamgourmet.com   
      
   philo wrote:   
   > I had a ton of fun the other day when I uninstalled some necessary   
   > network functions and could not use use Synaptic to retrieve them.   
   >   
   > Had down download from a different install and copy them to the drive   
   > manually. A major PITA   
   >   
   >   
   > Today, I found a drive in my workshop with Debian 7 on it.   
   >   
   > That was what lead the way to Ubuntu for me.   
   >   
   > Just for the heck of it, I tried to see if I could add a component using   
   > Synaptic.   
   >   
   > Since there were no valid on-line sources, it simply asked me to insert   
   > the original distribution media and it was all taken care of in a matter   
   > of seconds.   
      
   On my Linux Mint system, /etc/apt/sources.list contains:   
   ```   
   #deb cdrom:[Linux Mint ...]/ focal contrib main   
      
   # This system was installed using small removable media   
   # (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"   
   # entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.   
   # For information about how to configure apt package sources,   
   # see the sources.list(5) manual.   
   ```   
      
   I don't have an Ubuntu system handy right now, but as far as I recall it   
   does something similar.  I don't know if you can just uncomment that   
   "deb cdrom" line to re-enable installing from the original DVD?   
      
   --   
   Mark.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)