ISO Repository?

**telmo** · March 11th, 2005

I downloaded Hoary's Preview and i would like to upgrade my Warty. It so happens that my CD and DVD burner is not very healthy and i cannot record anything on it.

Can i add an ISO as an repository?

thx.

Oh yeah...by the way.... UBUNTU ROCKS!!!

**Juergen** · March 12th, 2005

You can mount the iso via:

Code:

mount -o loop -t iso9660 <isofilename> <mountpoint>

and then add a 'file:' entry to your sources.lst.

I'm not sure if the preview is prepared for this though, so after mounting the iso look for files like 'Packages.gz' on it...

**daniels** · March 13th, 2005

If you can download stuff, just change your repositories from 'warty' to 'hoary' in Synaptic and do a Smart Upgrade.

**telmo** · March 15th, 2005

Thank you! I would download it again, but it costs me!

**graabein** · March 15th, 2005

Originally Posted by daniels

If you can download stuff, just change your repositories from 'warty' to 'hoary' in Synaptic and do a Smart Upgrade.

I have no internet at home and I'm having problems with setting up Synaptic and apt-get with file:, where to put my debs and something or other with Packages.gz.

Anyone know of a good manual/howto somewhere. I've tried the Debian HOWTO on http://www.uk.debian.org/doc/manuals...t-howto.en.txt but it doesn't do it for me...

I want to copy main and restricted off of the install cd and have a dir to put debs I download at work... and I prefer to use Synaptic because of the GUI. I'm rather new to Linux...

**graabein** · March 16th, 2005

I've successfully set up /etc/apt/sources.list and updated Packages.gz. Works like a charm. Now I'm in a rut with the package dependencies for gtkpod, Neverball and other apps...

Code:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gtkpod: Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0) but 1.8.0-1ubuntu2 is to be installed
          Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0) but 2.4.7-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
          Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.5.6) but 2.4.10-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
          Depends: libid3tag0 (>= 0.15.0b) but it is not installable
          Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.8.0) but 1.6.0b-0ubuntu1 is to be installed

When I search the Warty repos I just got the old libatk version but Hoary had it. Can I just download the Hoary one and apt-get install it?

http://higgs.djpig.de/cgi-ubuntu/sea...ry&release=all
http://higgs.djpig.de/ubuntu/www/hoary/libs/libatk1.0-0

I reckon I must download every dependent package for each package. This is going to take a while.

Is there any way of getting a bundle of updated packages in a tar.gz somewhere?

**Juergen** · March 16th, 2005

When I search the Warty repos I just got the old libatk version but Hoary had it. Can I just download the Hoary one and apt-get install it?

If you install gtkpod from Hoary, the packages it depends on also need to be from Hoary.
You can install packages with 'dpkg -i blah.deb'
But I wouldn't recommend such a warty/hoary mix.

Is there any way of getting a bundle of updated packages in a tar.gz somewhere?

Since you don't know in advance which packages are needed, you'd have to download the whole repository
I don't know if a single DVD is big enough to transfer this home...

I'm allowed to run Ubuntu in a Virtual PC at work.
I do my updates there and then take the package-cache home. This way I have no probs with dependencies.
Maybe you can set up something similar? How/where do you do your downloads?