APT Black Magic Solved...

2006-07-19 Thread Redefined Horizons
My thanks to Ron and T.J. for their earlier posts about my problem. With their suggestions and a little more trouble shooting I was able to solve the problem. I wanted to post the solution to the list so others might find it when searching the archives. The original problem was that APT and Synap

RE: APT Black Magic

2006-07-19 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
Should take a look at reprepro http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/286 > -Original Message- > From: T.J. Duchene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:20 AM > To: debian-user > Subject: APT Black Magic > > Be sure to actually chec

APT Black Magic

2006-07-19 Thread T.J. Duchene
Be sure to actually check the listed paths in the Packages.gz file to make sure that they are pointing to the deb files in question. It sounds like you have the Packages file written in the proper format so that it can be added to the package tree via APT or Synaptic (frontend to apt), but that

Re: APT Black Magic

2006-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Redefined Horizons wrote: > It is almost 11:00 at night and I'm getting very frustrated, so please > bear with me. :] > > I'm having trouble getting APT to recognize debs on my hard drive, or > local file system. I can't understand what the problem is

APT Black Magic

2006-07-18 Thread Redefined Horizons
It is almost 11:00 at night and I'm getting very frustrated, so please bear with me. :] I'm having trouble getting APT to recognize debs on my hard drive, or local file system. I can't understand what the problem is, since I had the same repository system working on my Debian Sarge OS. (Now I'm o