Re: can't install from a local repository

[<dstibbe@kern.nl>]

> ewinger@nuffin:~/archive$ ls
> Packages.gz  Sources.gz  binary-i386  source

k... now this is where you are wrong

the structure should be like this :

~/archive/binary-i386/Packages.gz
~/archive/source/Sources.gz

and those two files point to wherever your packages might be
( normally you'd put them in
~/archive/pool/<first-letter-package>/<package-name>
)

and with your sources.list looking like :
deb file:///home/ewinger archive/
deb-src file:///home/ewinger archive/

you should make sure you have run the dpkg-scanpackages/dpkg-scansources
from /home/ewinger/archive