Hi, I created a locale repository, defined in sources.list deb file:///home etch/ which contains the desired packages I added an official repository deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian etch main contrib It works perfectly I just want to tell to apt-get , that if the software is in my REPOSITORY ( I mean /home/etch) take it from here et don't download it from the remote server !!! thanks for help bela