On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 06:46:24PM +0000, "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > when I try to install a package from CD-ROM using the > console-apt (0.7.7.2potato2) I get the following error > message: > > Package manager (dpkg) failed: > > * Internal Error, Pathname to install is not absolute > 'package_version_i386.deb' > > Press enter to continue ... > > When I use apt-get install package everything works fine. > What do I wrong here? Or is it a bug in console-apt?
This is a bug in console-apt which should be trivial to fix. In fact, it may even be fixed in woody (I don't know) It's identical to a bug I fixed about a week ago in aptitude; see http://bugs.debian.org/71091 for more info. (the bug is still open because the fixed version isn't uploaded to woody yet) In short, here's what I wrote in the last message on that report. ================================================================================ I fixed this. It turned out that the problem was simple -- I was testing whether FetchNeeded was greater than 0 before performing the download, and skipping it if it was not. Unfortunately, this caused the observed problem with local files. Since this test is pretty useless, I removed it to fix the problem. Thanks to everyone who helped track this down, especially Jason for analyzing a massive strace. ================================================================================ -- ie, I was abusing libapt. Daniel -- /----------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----------------\ | Put no trust in cryptic comments. | \---- News without the $$ -- National Public Radio -- http://www.npr.org ----/
