Installing contrib and non-free packages

[Ruben Mendes <etruben@ua.pt>]

Hello, thanks for reading.

After installing Debian I tried to install some non-free and contrib 
packages with no success. The packages show up in the dselect program,
I select them for installation and press ENTER to install. No errors, no 
warnings, it seems everything went fine but the package is not installed.

I am installing from a harddisk that contains a copy of a local Debian ftp
archive. The hardisk copy was made using the package 'mirror'. It has all
the distribution except the 'source' directories ( the disk is only 420Mb ).

If I install directly from the archive with ftp, everything works fine.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks in advance.

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Ruben Leote Mendes - etruben@ua.pt - CT1ETZ - ARUA