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Re: Installation from live dvd

dummy@example.com (g4sra) — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:48:05 +0000

@fsmithred, I mis-thought ceres was in there somewhere, and that there was some sort of crossover with the earlier released Debian repos.
Thanks for the clarification.

Re: Installation from live dvd

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:36:29 +0000

All the live images use codenames in sources.list, so excalibur is/was/will be excalibur whether it's testing, stable or oldstable. The last few pre-release isos had excalibur-security and excalibur-updates enabled in addition to the main repo. You shouldn't need to change any of that.

You need to run 'apt update' to refresh the cache. Then you'll be able to search for packages. Run 'apt upgrade' to get whatever updates there are.

Re: Installation from live dvd

dummy@example.com (g4sra) — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:10:56 +0000

@greenjeans, thanks very much for that.

I assume the following
~~If a pre-release live image was used to perform an install the sources.list would be syntactically correct but referring to the (now) incorrect repository.~~ Doesn’t happen.

Many of the packages may be out-of-date mainly because of dependencies, and a stale apt\dpkg cache would also prevent locating packages.

This is all guesswork on my part, any other ideas gratefully received.

Re: Installation from live dvd

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:00:21 +0000

I don't have the latest live DVD to check, but normally if it's using Refracta-Installer as in the past, then;
1. yes
2. no

Installation from live dvd

dummy@example.com (g4sra) — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:54:10 +0000

Does installation from a live dvd

1) clone its default sources.list onto the new install ?

2) perform a dist-upgrade on completion ?