> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Roger Barnes wrote: > > > I think you need to point at a directory, not a particular > deb. "man > > sources.list" suggests something like: > > > > deb file:/home/david/debian > > #apt-get update > E: malformed line in sources list > > I know that's what the man page says, but I think it doesn't > tell the whole story. Sometimes man pages tell fibs, or at > least not the whole story ;-)
Yep, but I think it got us closer than before. You caught me, I slipped in a fib with my fingers crossed (hoping it would work), but I think there needs to be a specfic directory structure that specifies release (eg testing, unstable), architecture and so on. apt-get, upon further inspection, seems to look for a Packages.gz file to catalog what's available at each URI. The debian-user thread below may provide some clues: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/11/msg00617.html Short of running dpkg-scanpackages, you may be stuck with using "dpkg -i" instead of "apt-get install" - Rog -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
