On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:37:42PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi. If this message, or something similar, has been posted by me, I > appologize for the re-post. I am having a problem installing the source tree > in 2.2r5 stable. I am a blind user, and am running Speakup, which is a screen > review package. The reason I am mentioning this is because if anyone sends me > any sollutions that involve using graphical methods, I won't be able to > properly use them. Anyway, when I use apt-cdrom, I get the following error: > handler silently failed. I am using the following syntax: apt-cdrom add -a > > I get a prompt to insert my source Cd, and it goes through the process of > scanning for the Cd label and any package/source indexes. It is finding the 4 > source index files that are on the Cd, but it doesn't seem to be copying > them. Note that this error only comes up when trying to install the source > tree, not any packages from Cds. When I try to instal packages from Cdroms, > everything works fine. Could I have overlooked something in terms of > configuring Apt? Any help would be greatly apreciated. Thanks in advance! >
When you ran apt-cdrom, did you get any new entries at all in /etc/apt/sources.list for the source tree? -- Jerome
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