On 0, Amit Shah <shahamit@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working with apt and have a few queries: > > 1. I've copied the first 3 woody disks on my hard disk in > /var/cache/apt/cds/[123]. > > I want apt to recognize these sources as the primary installation sources. I > made changes in /etc/apt/sources.list, saying: > > deb file:/var/cache/apt/cds/1/cdrom/dists potato unstable contrib main > non-US/contrib non-US/main > > deb file:/var/cache/apt/cds/2/cdrom/dists potato unstable contrib main > non-US/contrib non-US/main > > deb file:/var/cache/apt/cds/3/cdrom/dists potato unstable contrib main > non-US/contrib non-US/main > > this, however, doesn't work... it gives lots of error messages while > installing anything, couldn't stat, etc.. I'm not 100% certain on how to do this, but I think you should look into apt-move. > 2. I want to install kde-3.0.4, or whichever >3 version is available. how do > I go about doing this? I just have an entry for security.debian.org in my > sources.list. do I have to add more? Yah, I thought kde3 was only in unstable at present, but I can't even find it there at the moment. In fact I can't find an apt-gettable archive anywhere, but there is an almost apt-gettable archive at: http://ftp.du.se/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/Debian/woody/ It has a packages.gz, but its directory structure looks wrong to me. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Intellectual freedom is not the freedom to believe anything, but the freedom to believe only the truth." - Dr. John Stott Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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