Re: using cd roms with dselect
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 03:52:55PM -0000, Jim Higson wrote:
> In dselect menu I choose Access and then cdrom, dselect lists the 7
> mounted isos correctly, and when I choose one of them I am asked for the
> directory with the packages.
>
> If I accept the default, debian/dists/stable/, I get "does not contain any
> *.deb packages. Hmpf", which is true - browsing through the cd I see the
> .deb files are all in pool/
>
> If I enter debian/pool/ I get the message /debian/pool/binary-i386 does
> not exist, which I suppose is also correct.
>
> How do I get dselect to see the packages in the cdrom images?
Configure it to use the apt method instead, and use 'apt-cdrom add' to
register each CD in turn.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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