-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I wrote this bash script:
$ cat apttranslation #!/bin/bash -l [ ! 0 -eq `/usr/bin/id -u` ] && (/bin/echo -e '\n - Error: You must be root!\n') && exit 1 ### Hard disk partition containing dvd iso images. mpoint="/media/sdb1" ### Mount each dvd iso images accordenly on /etc/fstab entries. for ((i=1;i<=10;i++)) ; do mount $mpoint/wheezy/dvd-$i 2>/dev/null done ### Change directory to apt packages description archive. [ ! -d /var/lib/apt/lists/ ] && (/bin/echo -e '\n - Error: Failed to change directory to /var/lib/apt/lists/\n') && exit 1 cd /var/lib/apt/lists/ ### Recursively find Translation-en.gz in dvd-1,dvd-2,dvd-n... up to 10. for ((i=1;i<=10;i++)) ; do dvddir=$mpoint/wheezy/dvd-$i for f in $(find $dvddir -name Translation-en.gz) ; do ### Copy Translated-en.gz files renamed opportunely. g=$(echo $f | sed -e "s/\//_/g") /bin/echo "Copy translation archive: $g" /bin/cp $f $g done done ### Once done then unmount dvd ido images. for ((i=1;i<=10;i++)) ; do umount $mpoint/wheezy/dvd-$i 2>/dev/null done Copying those files then apt-cache show command it shall show description-en contents. Regards. - -- Franco Martelli. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR78pLAAoJEFM/ma7n+T+7+YgH/j/6V7nk9boqCxkI3D7UOIRV rFbAEIb7JaipuA+cPFKe65N8SZB+64wN1vJF2sWCVO8OWzFb4R78NI4zn/mp3s7b KUV/+e4b6SNJKseg4cvueQZLIpHSSkpM7mzZ6qds3q+ec7A30uWOEmPnvLJyt+qi yw0P7W53bOj+w8SslohtnfzxRX6+4rX9f3y0j75/InEFVg66pjTfzjwksOCzV+rI n81IZPU9Z4biW9n6G9zzwYzMuGLGFqW/2IGNrAbw7HHG6dqjpg+pBuJqtHa/SxV7 t639fm2VZmJbDV7ce0rcRnTX02dp1UIiOjQFwyY17M2Somw5VPmf0ws9wiUQE6I= =9Laq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org