Re: Help with apt

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes.  I have a dialup connection and
> sometimes I download a package over more than one dialup session, save it
> in a directory and install it with dpkg.  
> 
> I have tried apt, but could not get it to install a package from a
> directory on my hard disk - which is frustrating.  It seems to me apt is
> looking for the same directory structure that the debian mirrors have and
> I am not going to mirror the whole structure on my hard disk.

apt will assume a Debian archive structure unless you end your sources.list
line with a directory separater.  For example, if your deb files are in
/home/jhspies/debian/mydebs/*, you would need to following line.

deb file:/home/jhspies/debian mydebs/

HTH,
-Mitch