On 12/4/13, Brian Sammon <debian-users-l...@brisammon.fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:56:37 -0500 > Brian Sammon <debian-users-l...@brisammon.fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> I'm trying to get apt to install packages from a Debian 7.0.0 CD (just >> disc 1) I made a while ago. > > So, it turns out that was apt was looking in varying places for the CD mount > point. Sometimes it was looking in /media/apt, and sometimes it was looking > in /media/cdrom . If the CD wasn't mounted when I did the apt-get, it would > get mounted on /media/apt. > > running apt with > -o Debug::Acquire::cdrom="true" > caused it to tell me where it was looking for the CD-ROM.
That looks useful - my thought is that it's the kind of thing should be enabled by default, eg with -v option or somesuch. > I made /media/cdrom be a symlink to /media/apt and the problem went away. > This is probably not the best solution, but I only needed it to work for a > day. Glad you found a solution. Remember you can also use dpkg -i filename.deb to manually install a package, but you have to manually resolve dependencies yourself (view "depends" of the package, then install those first, recursively checking depends on the dependencies ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caosgnsqmwjwzdqzfcu2bvq5sv-8ythzyhf235tzgr862r7v...@mail.gmail.com
