Sorry to be picky, Roy, but Synaptic is just a front-end for dpkg or Gdebi, and he was pretty clear that he added 6 DVDs to Synaptic so he could install applications from them. There was little left up to interpretation. The DVDs are acceptable respositories; he was asking for a better way to handle using the DVDs as the repository (rather than his current "insert disc 1 then 4 then 2 then 1 then 5 then 2 then 4 then 3 then 5" routine).
The comand I sent will generate a list of files and their locations on the DVDs. He can then place the files in /var/cache/apt/archives, and Synatptic will install the program(s) without prompting you for a disc, becasuse the latest version is already staged on disc. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not sure what you mean by six DVDs of Ubuntu since Ubuntu comes > on CD and not DVD. Are these perhaps DVDs of debs and not installation > DVDs in which case they are not Ubuntu but Ubuntu debs. Sorry if this > sounds picky, but it is confusing as written. > > If they are just debs on DVD then Synaptic is no help since you won't > be using Synaptic to do the installing but dpkg or Gdebi. You can > browse the DVD with a file manager and find the individual debs and > install by clicking on it or better still search for it using the > search feature of Nautilus. Clicking the deb will launch Gdebi and > offer to install it. If you have lots to install then you might be > able to make a script to do it using dpkg, but that would mean having > a disk catalogue in in a text file. Apt-get and Synaptic are not the > tools for installing debs. > > Roy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -- Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
