On Sun 27 Jun 2021 at 16:00:12 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/27/2021 12:50 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > On 26/06/2021 15:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I have a empty machine on which I've done a default install of > > > Debian 10.7.0 with MATE as my desktop. As I intend later to install > > > some non-Debian software I wanted a local repository. To have a known > > > base to start from I extracted the contents of dvd1.iso to a local > > > directory. > > > > > > My sources.list references it as: > > > > deb [ Trusted=yes ] file:////home/richard/DVDs/dvd1/ buster main > > > > contrib non-free > > > > > > In Synaptic when I do Edit->Reload Package Information it responds: > > > > The repository 'file://home/richard/DVDs/dvd1 buster Release' is not > > > > signed. > > > > > > > > > https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%2B%22synaptic%22%20%2B%22repository%22%20%2B%22not%20signed%22%20site%3Adebian.org > > > gives no useful information. > > > > > > What do I do? > > > What should I have read? > > > > "man sources.list" will give you the format of the "deb ..." line. In > > particular, it will tell you that the command for setting a repository > > to trusted is "trusted", rather than "Trusted". Computers can be a > > little TOO literal at times. > > > > That works. I had had it lowercase but I was also chasing some other error > and the page of examples I was following had it upper case. One of those > cases where it would be nice to have a larger variety of examples on the man > page.
What need is there for examples when the manual is clarity itself?? Under THE DEB AND DEB-SRC TYPES: OPTIONS sources.list(5) has •Trusted (trusted) is a tri-state value... and For simplicity we list the deb822 field name and provide the one-line name in brackets. You are using the one-line format. -- Brian.
