Nick Hastings wrote:
Okay, so, I tried that and dselect's showing the information for the packages in the repository (thankyou! :) ). Unfortunately, the guy who put it together hasn't tested the repository and has written the Packages.gz badly. The addresses for all the files start with ./ , which apt-get can't interpret in an address (from the looks of the errors) and rightly so. I've confirmed this by looking at the file in Mozilla.Hi, * Joseph Jones <joe@bumpycarrot.cjb.net> [031022 10:31]:I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository: http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned in a mailing list archive. Could anyone tell me how I would go about installing from this repository (so I can play UT2003 and Quake3 fullscreen (long story, stupid graphics card)).Looks like you need to add deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ i386/ to you /etc/apt/sources.list then do: # apt-get update You can fin out more my reading the sources.list man page or the apt-get howto: # apt-get install apt-howto-en then look at /usr/share/doc/Debian/apt-howto/apt-howto.en.html Cheers, Nick.
Is there any way of fixing this? The way I would do it if I knew that apt-get could do it would be to download the Packages.gz, remove all the ./ , save and point apt-get at the new package file. Is this possible without downloading all the packages from the repository and effectively building a new repository locally? Or is it possible to make a local Packages.gz point at the remote files by using the full address?
Thanks again :)