Re: apt

[Dave Baker <dave@dsb3.com>]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Cesare Zavattari wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Philip Charles wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Cesare Zavattari wrote:
> > 
> > > After I resolved (thanks to you!) my problems with installation and cdrom
> > > mount, I'd like to use apt to install the package that I have on my
> > > Hurd-D1 cdrom.
> > > I installed apt with dpkg, and I ran apt-cdrom, but it looks for a
> > > directory that doesn't exist on my cdrom!
> > > How can I specify manually the directory where the packages are?
> > 
> > Have you edited /etc/apt/sources.list ?
> 
> I read that for cdrom I have to use apt-cdrom
> 

apt-cdrom just automates the addition of lines into /etc/apt/sources.list

if you have a non-standard CD you will just edit the file yourself with
the appropriate paths.  (the man page for sources.list will give the
syntax you need). 


-Dave