Re: install local deb file

[brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown)]

> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:58:20AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> >   # cd /storage/debs  // went to place where the .debs file is located  
> >   # ls                // I see listed libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb 
> > 		      // and libc6_2.3.2-9_i386.deb 
> >   # apt-get update    
> >   Ign file: debs/ Release   // Is this a problem?
> >   ...
> >   # apt-get install libdb1-compat
> >   Reading Package Lists... Done
> >   Building Dependency Tree
> >   The following extra packages will be installed:
> >       libc6
> >   The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >       libdb1-compat
> >   1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
> > 	     upgraded.
> >   Need to get 0B/3761kB of archives. After unpacking 160kB will be
> > 	     used.
> >   Do you want to continue? [Y/n]  // I continue
> >   Err file: debs/ libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7
> >       File not found
> >   Err file: debs/ libc6 2.3.2-9
> >       File not found
> 
> I think your Packages file is screwy. Can you please post:
> 
>   * the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list;
> 
>   * the first block of text from /storage/debs/Packages or
>     /storage/debs/Packages.gz or whatever?

Here is my sources.list. I've cleaned out comment lines:

deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ woody main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.teleglobe.net/non-US/ woody/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
deb file:/storage/ debs/

The last line refers to my separate "storage" partition on which there
is: /storage/debs. Here I put I put .deb files and the Packages.gz I
build from them. 

I assume you want me to unpack Packages.gz to inspect its
innards. Here is the first block:

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2-9
Priority: required
Section: base
Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
Depends: libdb1-compat
Suggests: locales, glibc-doc
Conflicts: strace (<< 4.0-0), libnss-db (<= 2.2-6.1.1), timezone, timezones, gconv-modules, libtricks, libc6-doc, libc5 (<< 5.4.33-7), libpthread0 (<< 0.7-10), libc6-bin, libwcsmbs, apt (<< 0.3.0), libglib1.2 (<< 1.2.1-2), netkit-rpc, wine (<< 0.0.20021007-1)
Provides: glibc-2.3.2-9
Replaces: ldso (<= 1.9.11-9), timezone, timezones, gconv-modules, libtricks, libc6-bin, netkit-rpc, netbase (<< 4.0)
Architecture: i386
Filename: /storage/debs/libc6_2.3.2-9_i386.deb
Size: 3730358
MD5sum: 93b2fe09ef8ebbb2612216502245a0c2
Description: GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
 Contains the standard libraries that are used by nearly all programs on
 the system. This package includes shared versions of the standard C library
 and the standard math library, as well as many others.
 Timezone data is also included.
source: glibc
installed-size: 12808

Maybe you can see something amiss here.

Haines