trouble with apt

[wizgen]

i recently installed kubutu 10.10...now i hav a large repository of deb packages.i stored it in a folder and aaded the folder as a source in sources.list /etc/apt. now kpackagekit is showing all the packages that i added but when i try to install them kpackagekit starts downloading the packages that are available locally in dat folder from the internet.How do i configure kpackagekit to use the locally available packages rather than downloading the same package from the internet.

[Snowhog]

Re: trouble with apt

The simplest way is to not connect to the Internet. Unplug your wired connection, or turn off your wireless. This way, when you run KPackagkit, it will have to utilize the 'local' repository. BEWARE THOUGH, that if those packages in your local repository refer to dependencies that you don't have, you will have problems.

[wizgen]

Re: trouble with apt

i tried the above method but then it gives a error that unable to download package from the internet and i am not talking abt dependencies that are not available in the repository ....it is downloading those which are present der...

[Snowhog]

Re: trouble with apt

Okay. Launch KPackageKit, click on Settings and uncheck all but your local repository, click Apply. KPackageKit will update the package cache from the only repository it now knows about - your local repository.

[vinnywright]

Re: trouble with apt

i recently installed kubutu 10.10...now i hav a large repository of deb packages.i stored it in a folder

your

large repository

of packages.......were they from a earlier ver. than 10.10

if so their old as far as apt-get is concerned and would be replaced/upgraded/ignored for your new system.

VINNY

[wizgen]

Re: trouble with apt

no they r from the same version.. i wanted to install kubuntu in two systems so in one i downloaded from the net in the other i wanted to use the files that i had already downloaded

[vinnywright]

Re: trouble with apt

you should be abell to copy them (/var/cache/apt/archives/) from the box you DL'd to (provided their all their and you haven't ran apt-get clean) to the new box and from in the DIR you coped to with somthing like

dpkg -i *.deb

VINNY

[wizgen]

Re: trouble with apt

dpkg -i *.deb

jus installed all the packages present .. i dont want to install all the packages present der but i need an option thru kpackagekit to install packages i need...using the above command has left the sysytem with loads of installed software with unsatisfied dependencies...how can roll back the changes?

Okay. Launch KPackageKit, click on Settings and uncheck all but your local repository, click Apply. KPackageKit will update the package cache from the only repository it now knows about - your local repository.

i tried doing the above the its giving error that file not found while the file is present der


here is what i did from the starting
1>copied the debs file from a running kubuntu system from /var/cache/apt/archives to a /home/wizg3n/debs on my system
2>created a packages.gz using the command

dpkg-scanpackages debs /dev/null | gzip > debs/Packages.gz

3>added the line

deb file:/home/wizg3n/debs/ /

to etc/apt/sources.list and disadbled all other sources using comments
4>updated apt using

apt-get update

5>the packages in local source showed in kpackagekit
6>when i try install any of dem frm kpackagekit i get a error that file not found while the file is present in the local source

steps 6,7 wer also tried using settings in kpackagekit
now please suggest wat i shud do