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On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 02:19:15PM -0500, Parviz Rasoulipour wrote: >On 21/12/12 01:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 01:20:08PM -0500, Parviz Rasoulipour wrote: >>>Hello, >>> >>>I downloaded the 8 DVD images from the Debian website >>>http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.6/i386/iso-dvd/ >>> >>>andextracted contents of the images in my hard disk to be used as >>>local repository. It seems that there is a problem with the last >>>image (# 8), because the Synaptic package manager issues an error >>>warning when the address of the directory containing DVD8 is included >>>in the list of its third-party repository. >>Hi, >> >>Could you please show us the details of that error from synaptic >>please? It's a bit difficult to diagnose the problem without that. :-) >> >OK, Here is what I did in detail: > >1) Downloaded all the DVD images. >2) Extracted contents of the images into separate directories on my >hard disk. > For example, the content of image #1 was extracted into: > home/parviz/DebianReposi/DVD1 > And I did similarly with other images. >4) I included all the following lines into the Synaptic via > Settings > Repositories > Third-party Software > Add > >deb file:/home/parviz/DebianReposi/DVD1 squeeze main contrib >deb file:/home/parviz/DebianReposi/DVD2 squeeze main contrib >deb file:/home/parviz/DebianReposi/DVD3 squeeze main contrib >deb file:/home/parviz/DebianReposi/DVD4 squeeze main contrib >deb file:/home/parviz/DebianReposi/DVD5 squeeze main contrib >deb file:/home/parviz/DebianReposi/DVD6 squeeze main contrib >deb file:/home/parviz/DebianReposi/DVD7 squeeze main contrib >deb file:/home/parviz/DebianReposi/DVD8 squeeze main contrib > >Each line was fed into the Synaptic separately. All was OK except the >last line which caused the following error message (The message is in >the double quotes): > >"Could not download all repository indexes > >The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted >because of network problems. If available an older version of the >failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. >Check your network connection and ensure the repository address in >the preferences is correct. > >Failed to fetch >file:/home/parviz/DebianReposi/DVD8/dists/squeeze/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz >File not found >Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old >ones used instead." Right, thankyou for sharing that - it's more helpful. :-) >Then I removed the last line and reloaded again. It was OK. >Now, I am guessing that either there is a problem with manufacturing >the last image (#8) OR the contents of the last image cannot be >included like that of other DVD images. There isn't a problem with DVD#8, it just doesn't contain any contrib packages. Your method of adding all DVD directories and listing both main and contrib for all of them is the problem here. If you re-add with just deb file:/home/parviz/DebianReposi/DVD8 squeeze main then it will work fine. If you want to solve this problem more generally, check to see if $DVD/dists/squeeze/$suite exists before listing $suite for that DVD. If you use apt-cdrom to add (real) CDs or DVDs, it works out which suites to include automatically using the metadata in dists/squeeze/Release. OK? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
