On Friday 27 July 2018 09:18:50 Stefan Krusche wrote: > Am Freitag 27 Juli 2018 schrieb William Morder: > > Does anybody know why aptoncd rejects all TDE-Trinity packages? I am > > running Devuan Jessie (or sometimes, Debian Jessie ...). > > What do you mean by "reject"? What error message do you get? I will run it again and copy the error message. > > By the way, aptoncd has been removed from Debian, see: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885946 > aptoncd -- RoQA; unmaintained; not in testing for 2.5 years > Huh ... I downloaded it from the Debian Jessie repositories. I will look into it. I need some kind of solution like it, so that I can install when I don't have Internet access. > The Website says "Status: Pre-Alpha" and "This project has no files." > See: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aptoncd/files/ > > The latest news on http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/ are from: 2007.03.14 > > This tool seems to be unmaintained and not developed since many years. It's > probably broken, I think. > > Kind regards, > Stefan > Actually, my ideal solution would be to use flash drives as my personal repositories. (That way, I don't keep wasting DVDs and CDs.) Somehow or other, I got that trick working with Kubuntu Hardy many years. I just set up the address of the drive with the prefix "deb" or "deb-src" and it worked; but now I can't get it going. I downloaded the DVD images of Debian packages, but apt will not recognize them when I try to add them as sources. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
