In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, MacKenzie, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to get apt to work installing .deb files from a local directory. >I have no packages list and I cannot seem to figure out how to make the >FILE: uri stem work. I guess the problem is that they are just sitting >there so I say: > >deb file:/dosc/zips/debs
Generate a Packages file with dpkg-scanpackages and add something like: deb file:/graveyard/www/debian/ ./ e.g. for that dir I use Packages.gz: $(overrides) dpkg-scanpackages . $(overrides) | gzip -9 > $@ -- Steve Haslam Validation Engineer, ARM Limited, Cambridge, England there's something cold in the way you touch me it's just the feeling you'd be better without me [mesh]