Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > No, I already tried this and it doesn't work. It gives "unable to state > /cdrom/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz" > > The problem seems to be that the file structure on my cdrom is > /debian/main/binary-i386/. Stable is a link to /debian/main. This doesn't > seem to be what apt-get wants, and I don't seem to be able to tell it what > to do. > A quick solution is to use the absolute path as in: deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/ deb file:/cdrom/debian contrib/binary-i386/ etc. Note the trailing slash after the binary-i386. This indicates an absolute path. Apt will look for: /cdrom/debian/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz etc.
See man sources.list(5). John.