Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

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On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 20:26:36 +0530
Anubhav Yadav <anubhav1691@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is what I did.
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> Different roads lead to the same roads I guess! Well you must have
> guessed by now why I want to use CDROM for installation of packages.
> 
> 
> On 8/13/13, Anubhav Yadav <anubhav1691@gmail.com> wrote:
> > dvd1-mountpoint is a folder where I mount the iso and /media/apt1 is a
> > symbolic link to dvd1-mountpoint.
> >
> > So now what I will do is I will just mount the iso directly into
> > /media/apt1 where apt1 is a directory not a link.  Will this work?


Ok, try it like this:

1) Add to sources.list:

deb file:/media/apt1 debian main contrib non-free

2) Comment out anything else in sources.list.

3) Run apt-get update.