On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:47:00PM -0400, John Forest wrote: > 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. >
Brilliant! Yes, thanks, this is now working. My problem previously was that I was putting the whole path on one line, instead of leaving a space after ../debian. I think the man page for sources.list might be more clearly written, with more examples. It's rather misleading as it stands. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk