On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 14:56 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 14:51, Redefined Horizons wrote: > > I added the "debs file:///home debs/" line to my sources.list file. > > > > However, I am getting this error when I start Synaptic, which has me > > puzzled: > > > > "W: Couldn't stat source packages list file: debs/ Packages > > (/var/apt/lists/__home_debs_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or > > directory)" > > This error just means that it hasn't got a package list yet. Run apt-get > update, or just choose to update from synaptic. > > -- > Lee. > > Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. > > I'm learning a little something new about apt and dpkg and the like every day here in this list... But I have a question about this one.
I have a directory full of *.deb files that may OR maynot have been installed already with dpkg -i <package>.deb and their info is already in the apt database. ie: they show up in synaptic and apt-cache show whatever Can I still use dpkg-scansources and add them (ie: the Packages.gz) to my sources list? OR... would I have to uninstall then reinstall via the newly created source? mr mike houston, tx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
