> Put it in /storage/debs/.=20 > > Just to clarify, I would do something like: > > echo "deb file:/storage/ debs/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list > dpkg-scanpackages /storages/debs /dev/null | gzip > /storage/debs/Packages.= > gz > apt-get update > apt-get install whatever
Nick, this is one thing I originally tried, but failed. This time, it think I got a bit further. I'm trying to install libdvdcss2 to that I might view DVD on xine. I found it and put it into my local /storage/debs directory, along with two dependencies, libc6 and libdb1. I did the Packages.gz creation, informed storage.list of the location, and did the update. So far so good. The Packages.gz holds three packages, but since I want to install the libdvdcss2 primarily, I installed it, hoping that it would figure out the dependencies and install them, too. Apparently I was wrong. I get something like this: Reading package lists... Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Then removal of unused packages (including my Qt3 libraries, which I installed in preparation for installation of an application that will need them). Then it said that two of the three packages in Packages.gz will be intalled, and one package (the libc6) will be upgrades. Except for at least one group of undesired removals, sounds good. I'm told how many packages will be removed, installed and upgraded, and the space required. That sounds right. So I say, Continue, and it proceeds to write extended state information. But then: Err file: debs/ libsdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 File not found Err file: debs/ libc6 2.3.2-9 File not found Removing... So it was unable to find the two dependencies in the Packages.gz, and yet also apparently somehow managed to install the libdvdcss2 that depended on them, which I don't understand. I run # apt-cache pkgnames | grep libdvdcss2 libdvdcss2 which I take it means the installation of this packages suceeded. But the command also tells me that libsdb1-compat not installed, and libc6 not upgraded. Should I have have run # apt-get install libdvdcss2 libsdb1-compat libc6=2.3.3-9? I tried, but got the same Err file messages as above (although no Removals this time, of course). Haines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]