[ubuntu-in] Fwd: Setting up local apt-get repository ? - Any more tips

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi

am fwding this message again - in case some one has any bright ideas

With another query

a few years back a friend setup Ubuntu on our (ex) office network as a bonus
he also put the entire debian repository as iso files into one section and
said i could use it to download any package and not have to visit the net -
that time i was still coming to grips with how to deal with basic linux,
updating was not even in the peripheral vision.

So is that some kind of option

I am kinda of desperate and none of the solutions so far seem to work.

Is there some way i can mimic the cd's on the hard disk and that apt accepts
this mimic.

thanks
ram

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ramnarayan. K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2008 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] Setting up local apt-get repository ?
To: Ubuntu India Local Community <ubuntu-in at lists.ubuntu.com>


I added a dvd / cd of Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 and this was the line in
sources.list
deb cdrom:[Gibbon1]/ gutsy main multiverse universe
and am able to access all the packages that are there on the DVD

i suitably modified my line for the section thats copied on to a usb
hard disk - as below

this is the line in my sources.list
deb file:////media/disk/ubuntu/gibbon1/ gutsy main multiverse universe

and this is the error i get if i try
ram at ram-laptop:~$ sudo aptitude update
Ign file: gutsy Release.gpg
Ign file: gutsy/main Translation-en_IN
Ign file: gutsy/multiverse Translation-en_IN
Ign file: gutsy/universe Translation-en_IN
Ign file: gutsy Release
Ign file: gutsy/main Packages
Ign file: gutsy/multiverse Packages
Ign file: gutsy/universe Packages
66% [Packages gzip 0]

it just gets stuck at this 66% percent mark
so what could be wrong ??

The error message in synaptic is similar (same)

now any suggestions , would be grateful

ram




On 1/25/08, Ramnarayan. K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/19/08, Moz <listmoz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Ramnarayan
> >
> > Can you send me the links for all the 5 DVDs for Ubuntu 7.10
> > repository? I intend to download them. I presume it is for Gutsy.
> >
> oops
>
> i did not download it , but will ask the person who donwloaded it to
> send the links
>
> ram
>
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