On Tuesday 06 March 2001 05:15, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Glyn Millington wrote: > > KDE ???? > > > > The prog you you need is..... wait for it....... > > > > > > apt-cdrom ! > > apt-cdrom add... > > No? > > But the q is will it read a non-debian cdrom and find the debs in > the /potato directory? > > Jonathan
Your only option is probably to mount the cdrom, and hunt for the Packages.gz file, say by typing "find /cdrom -name "Packages.gz" The file in question is the file used by apt-get to do its magick. Let's take an example from my local file system. The Packages file is /mirror/http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz The entry for this in my /etc/apt/sources.list is deb file:/mirror/http.us.debian.org/debian woody main As you can see the "/dists" and "/binary-i386" is implied in the sources.list entry. You can also choose to create your very own Packages file (with or without the gzip'ping"). The command to do this is dpkg-scanpackages. RTFM. It's quite easy to do it. Just remember to stash your spanking new Packages file in a directory layout apt-get is comfortable with, something like /foodir/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages And add the corresponding etc/apt/sources.list entry. You can choose to use the files in the cdrom, but you have to remember to mount it beforehand, or you can copy them all to your hard drive (KDE isn't that much of a monster).
