Re: APT HOWTO, sources.list man page.

["G.W. Haywood" <ged@jubileegroup.co.uk>]

Hi there,

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In

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html#s-dpkg-scanpackages

section 2.2 states

"... To use the packages, finally, add:

     deb file:/root debs/

After that just use the APT commands as usual."

but it doesn't say where this is to be added.

I suggest:

"... To use the packages, finally, at the top of your sources.list
file add the line:

     deb file:/root debs/

After that just use the APT commands as usual."

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man sources.list

states

"URI SPECIFICATION
       The currently recognized URI types are cdrom, file, http, and ftp."

but the HOWTO

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html#s-sources.list

states

"The /etc/apt/sources.list file can contain several types of
lines. APT knows how to deal with archives of types http, ftp, file
(local files, e.g., a directory containing a mounted ISO9660
filesystem) and ssh, that I know of."

Which is correct?

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73,
Ged.