I'm trying to install cdrom-detect and it's just not working out. I can find it here:

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/cdrom-detect

...so I know it's a valid package. My apt-get sources are all good and up to date, but I can't get this program installed (or any of it's dependencies) via apt-get. Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Are you going to post the error message you are getting or what?

Also post your sources.list.

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nomad:~# apt-get install cdrom-detect
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package cdrom-detect
nomad:~#



Sources:

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# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot Multi-architecture amd64/i386/powerpc NETINST #1 20100124-10:14]/ squeeze main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot Multi-architecture amd64/i386/powerpc NETINST #1 20100124-10:14]/ squeeze main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/repository squeeze/

What is cdrom-detect supposed to do that your system doesn't already do, now? IOW, what system functionality are you missing? The link you provided points to something that's a part of udeb. There is a specific warning on that page:

Well.. as far as I can see, it's a udeb, and .udebs are non-policy-compliant packages used as debian-installer components and you can't install them on a normal system.