how to authenticate my local repository

[Alexander Smirnov]

Paul S wrote:
> It's 3.3 Gb that I was hoping to transfer to a DVD or another partition. 
>   I just wanted to free up the space on /
>   
is so, you can either mount big partition to /var/cache/apt, or make a 
symbolic link /var/cache/apt/archives -> /mnt/big_partition
> But, when I go to install from it, aptitude wants to download from the net rather than pull from the local repository.
>   
order in /etc/apt/sources.list is important. Move your repository at the 
top.