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Re: Getting apt-cdrom to work



On Vi, 29 nov 13, 21:56:37, Brian Sammon wrote:
> I'm trying to get apt to install packages from a Debian 7.0.0 CD (just disc 1) I made a while ago.
> 
> I mounted the CD, ran "apt-cdrom add" and it seemed to work successfully (it added a line to /etc/sources.list).
> When I run "apt-get update", I get six lines of
> "Ign cdrom://"...
> which is worrying, but since I wasn't sure, I continued on.
> 
> I then tried "apt-get install acpi/wheezy", and it says
> "E: Release 'wheezy' for 'acpi' was not found".
>
> I have verified that there is a deb of acpi on the CD.
> I get this problem both with apt 0.9.7.9 from wheezy and apt 0.9.12.1 from jessie/testing.
> 
> What is the next step in troubleshooting this?

Could you please post the output of

    apt-cache policy
    apt-cache policy acpi

Kind regards,
Andrei
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