Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/31/2019 07:30 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: > > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M > > > I edited sources.list to read > > > deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes > > > > > > When running Synaptic's > > > Edit->Reload Package Information > > > I receive an error message: > > > > The repository 'file:/home/richard/dvd.iso stretch Release' > > > > does not have a Release file. > > > > > > What is the problem? > > > > The problem is that the .iso is not a mounted filesystem. > > > > You could: > > > > $ mkdir /home/richard/dvdmount > > $ sudo mount /home/richard/dvd.iso /home/richard/dvdmount > > > > If it complains about the filetype, try -t udf or -t iso9660. > > It did not complain. > > > > > and then you can use this sources.list line: > > > > deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount stretch main contrib trusted=yes > > > > (or similar; I don't recall if the debian repository on disc > > starts in the root of the disc) > > I now get a different error message: > > The repository 'file:/home/richard/dvdmount stretch Release' is not signed. > > I also added "allow-insecure=yes" to sources.list with the same result.
Try [trusted=yes] and/or [allow-insecure=yes] --- the brackets are part of the syntax. -dsr-