Hi All The terminal reads ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Elshaddai:/apt-offline# export APT_CONFIG="/apt-offline/apt.conf" Elshaddai:/apt-offline# apt-get -d install dwarfs-debian-guide Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package dwarfs-debian-guide Elshaddai:/apt-offline# ls -l /mirrors/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-all/doc/dwarfs-debian-guide_2.2.96- 1.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1521104 May 9 2001 /mirrors/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-all/doc/dwarfs-debian-guide_2.2.96- 1.deb Elshaddai:/apt-offline#
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- /apt-offline/apt.conf reads ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- APT { /* This is not necessary if the two machines are the same arch, it tells the remote APT what architecture the Debian machine is */ Architecture "i386"; Get::Download-Only "true"; }; Dir { /* Use the disc for state information and redirect the status file from the /var/lib/dpkg default */ State "/apt-offline/"; State::status "status"; // Binary caches will be stored locally Cache::archives "/apt-offline/archives/"; Cache "/tmp/"; // Location of the source list. Etc "/apt-offline/"; }; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- /apt-offline/sources.list reads ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. deb file:/mirrors/debian stable contrib main non-free non-us # deb cdrom:[Advanced Linux Pocketbook CD 3 - _Potato Updates_]/ potato updates/ main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20001207 )]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20001207 )]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main # deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/linux/debian stable main contrib non-free # deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free # deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib non- free ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Why isn't dwarfs-debian-guide being found? TIA Cheers Stephen Grant Brown