Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > So I hate to say this, but you should erase the .deb files from > > /var/cache/apt/archives (or attempt to put them back into the > > dists/potato/main... filestructure if you removed them from their former > > location), then put the file: URL in /etc/apt/sources.list, then run > > dselect and > > tell it to use apt to get the files, and use the update, select, and install > > steps in dselect to complete your installation. > > I don't think it doesn't harm and you really have to delete them from > /var/cache/apt/archives.
Of course, you are right. I don't know what I was thinking. Sorry about that! But it doesn't help, and can waste a lot of space, to have *everything* in /var/cache/apt/archives. I stand corrected, -Adam P.
