Ramnarayan.K said the following on Thursday 07 February 2008 05:15 PM: > Hi > > am fwding this message again - in case some one has any bright ideas > > With another query > > a few years back a friend setup Ubuntu on our (ex) office network as a > bonus he also put the entire debian repository as iso files into one > section and said i could use it to download any package and not have to > visit the net - that time i was still coming to grips with how to deal > with basic linux, updating was not even in the peripheral vision. > > So is that some kind of option > > I am kinda of desperate and none of the solutions so far seem to work. > > Is there some way i can mimic the cd's on the hard disk and that apt > accepts this mimic.
http://balajin.net/blog/archives/2005/11/26/ubuntu_upgrade.html This is what I did a while ago and this worked. I do not have a CD handy to check but this is what I would try. Put the CD on, let us say it mounts under /media/cdrom. Inside this there will (should?) be a directory called ubuntu. And inside this there should be a directory called pool and that should have subdirs main, multiverse etc as you point below. If yes, try adding deb file:/media/cdrom/ubuntu gusty main restricted And see if apt-get update works and then you can mirror the tree to your disk. HTH -balaji -- http://balajin.net/blog http://www.flickr.com/photos/balajijegan/ Getting there is only half as far as getting there and back. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in