"Daniel Haude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, > > I've got a collection of a bunch of debian packages. They're not > organized in any way, just a directory full of .debs. How can I make > apt recognize this repository? I tried adding > > deb file:/home/dh/download/debian/ > > to the apt-sources file, but of course apt balks at this as it is > "malformed" because it doesn't have the sections listed after the > directory. The .debs come from all sorts of sections of the official > debian distro. How can I make this work?
You need to run dpkg-scanpackages. Read the Debian Repository HOWTO <http://www.isotton.com/debian/docs/repository-howto/repository-howto.html>. Martin -- ,--. Martin Dickopp, Dresden, Germany ,= ,-_-. =. / ,- ) http://www.zero-based.org/ ((_/)o o(\_)) \ `-' `-'(. .)`-' `-. Debian, a variant of the GNU operating system. \_/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
