Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 05/31/2019 08:53 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > >        deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount stretch main contrib
>
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > I now get a different error message:
>
> How about adding "/pool" to the URI ?
>
>    deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount/pool stretch main contrib
>
> because i see in a mounted 9.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
>
>    /mnt/iso/pool/main/a/a2ps/a2ps_4.14-2_amd64.deb
>
> (The man page and wiki are remarkably diffuse about "file:".)

Error message now:
> The repository 'file:/home/richard/dvdmount/pool stretch Release'
> does not have a Release file.

I've been using Synaptic primarily for current convenience.
Would I be better off using one of the apt family of command line tools?