correct setting of /etc/apt/sources.list for local file

pascalv · 07-15-2005, 02:08 AM

Hello,

I have some problem to install software in deb format.
These deb files are stored in

Code:

 /home/pascalv/2005/

This line was added to my /etc/apt/sources.list file:

Code:

 deb file:/home/pascalv/2005 ./

and I ran these commands:

Code:

# dpkg-scanpackages /home/pascalv/2005 /dev/null | gzip - > /home/pascalv/2005/Packages.gz
 ** Packages in archive but missing from override file: **
(...)
 Wrote 106 entries to output Packages file.

# apt-get update
Ign file: ./ Release
hit hxxp://(...)
Hit fxp://fxp.fr.debian.org stable/non-free Release
Reading Package Lists... Done

# apt-get install icecc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  icecc
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/370kB of archives.
After unpacking 1163kB of additional disk space will be used.
Err file: ./ icecc 2.9-1
  File not found
Failed to fetch file:/home/pascalv/2005//home/pascalv/2005/icecc_2.9-1_i386.deb  File not found
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Hence there is a problem to the link to my deb file. I have unsuccessfully tried to replace ./ by / and lots of other combinations in dpkg-scanpackages and /etc/apt/sources.list

Does somebody know how to solve this?

Linux version: Debian 3.1 Sarge Kernel 2.4.27-2-386
Computer: Laptop NEC Versa AMD K6-II 450MHz, 64 MB RAM

Thanks
Pascal

darkleaf · 07-15-2005, 05:01 AM

Try "apt-setup" It should have an option to setup a directory to read from.

pascalv · 07-15-2005, 06:49 AM

Thanks for the answer
In fact I already tried apt-setup but it seems to work only if your repository has the same structure as the debian distribution
It is not the case here because the deb packages in my local repository come from several places

darkleaf · 07-15-2005, 09:14 AM

Don;t know if you like this but you can also just install them like this:

"dpkg -i file.deb"

Apt is a frontend to dpkg so it's sort of the same as using apt itself.

pascalv · 07-15-2005, 09:24 AM

Quote:

"dpkg -i file.deb"

Thanks for your answer

In case of dependencies, dpkg will just indicate the necessary additional packages and stop the installation, whereas apt-get will collect these additional packages and install them.

So in other words my problem is to make apt* use the repository sources with the priorities that I want (file:/ then cdrom:/ then ftp:// then http://)