Software repository

[Romeyn Prescott]

At 3:08 PM -0500 12/15/04, Nathan Sprangers scribbled:
>On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 09:05 +0200, maxim at x-i.net wrote:
>>  Hello Ubuntu-users,
>>
>>  I am a relative newcomer to debian-based linux environments so 
>>please excuse my
>>  ignorance.
>>  I wondered if any of you have a straight forward solution to setting up a
>>  software repository on my harddrive, as I do not have an internet 
>>connection at
>>  home, and I don't know how to point apt or other package managers 
>>to a folder
>>  and get files from there instead of from an ftp address.
>>
>>  Yours ignoramously,
>>  Maxim.
>
>I don't quite understand the utility in having a local repository if you
>have no way to download software.  Having a local repository would
>require that you be able to download software/source from somewhere else
>(build & package the source) first.  Probably all you want to do is
>comment out the online repository lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list
>file (tells apt where to look for packages).
>
>Maybe I'm not understanding what you want to do, but that would be my
>solution for a machine without internet access.
>~Nathan


Maybe he has Internet access somewhere else and plans on schlepping 
packaged home on CD or something?

...ROMeyn
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