On 25-Apr-00, you wrote: > Björn Johansson wrote: > >> On 24-Apr-00, you wrote: >> >>> I think there's some confusion here. If you have the filestructure >>> available, just point apt to those files using a file: URL in >>> /etc/apt/sources.list, e.g. >>> >>> file:/whatever/debian >>> >>> where /whatever/debian contains the directory "dists". Then you can >> use: >>> >>> apt-get update >>> apt-get dist-upgrade >>> apt-get install [package name] >>> >>> and all the other apt goodies. apt should also function within dselect >> if >>> you do this, dselect will make package selection and management much >>> easier than apt alone. >> >> I now have all the files(including the right filestructure) in: >> /var/cache/apt/archives/dists/frozen/main/binary-powerpc/ >> >> Does this mean(in my case) that the sources.list haveto contain >> this line: >> >> deb file:/var/cache/apt/archives/dists/frozen/main/binary-powerpc ? > > Close. You should use file:/var/cache/apt/archives as the URL. It has to > contain the directory "dists". > >> When installing Debian for the first time the base2_2.tgz get extracted >> through the install program, could an upgrade for these files cause that >> the password for root and other users disappear? :-/ > > I don't think so... > >> I managed to do >> something strange with my system so that I couldn't log in as >> root, hmm.. I have now done a new installation and I'm going to be >> a *little* more careful this time ;). > > Sorry you had to reinstall, not sure what could have gone wrong. Hope you > can get it to work! > > -Adam P. > >
Okay, the path seems okay now, but now there's another problem. My friend who burned 3 cds with Debian packages were using Windows98. So looking at the filenames under Dos they ALL get cropped. For example: empire-lafe_0.39.deb gets EMPIR~60.DEB. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Perhaps there is a Debian package which renames the filename to the filename comment. Since the comment contains the real filename, this would be excellent! The APT-program doesn't seem to find any packages because of this! :((( I think I'll just haveto wait until I can get the official CD from a store, because I don't want to rename 4000 packages by hand. -- Kind regards Björn Johansson A4000, PPC604e @ 233Mhz (AmigaOS3.5 + Debian2.2)
