On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Cesare Zavattari wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Philip Charles wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Cesare Zavattari wrote: > > > > > After I resolved (thanks to you!) my problems with installation and cdrom > > > mount, I'd like to use apt to install the package that I have on my > > > Hurd-D1 cdrom. > > > I installed apt with dpkg, and I ran apt-cdrom, but it looks for a > > > directory that doesn't exist on my cdrom! > > > How can I specify manually the directory where the packages are? > > > > Have you edited /etc/apt/sources.list ? > > I read that for cdrom I have to use apt-cdrom >
apt-cdrom just automates the addition of lines into /etc/apt/sources.list if you have a non-standard CD you will just edit the file yourself with the appropriate paths. (the man page for sources.list will give the syntax you need). -Dave
