[kde-linux] Add CDs to Kpackage sources, How-To ???

[The Other]

> > I had been using YaST to access the SuSE install disks to get
> > packages.  Then I discovered Kpackage, and would like to use my
> > Debian Woody and Sarge install disks to access those packages.

> > Is it possible to tell Kpackage to read packages off CDs?  If so,
> > how? (I access the internet through dial-up, and really want to
> > use those 14 CDs of packages I have from Debian.)

On Sunday 27 August 2006 4:28 pm, Gary L. Greene Jr. wrote:
> Unfortunately you're about to cause your self a world of pain by
> mixing packages from one distribution of Linux with another.
> Unfortunately, in Linux if a package is from one distribution or
> another, it is highly advised to use packages only for the
> distribution you are on. This is caused by version mismatches of
> libraries, locations of tools, and the scripts used to start the
> installation/configure it. SuSE is as far from Debian in many ways
> as an apple is to an orange. While both are fruit and they both are
> sweet, they aren't one and the same.

Thank for the reply Gary.  I won't pull compiled packages off the CDs.

But I'd still like to be able to get Kpackage to add CDs to the 
sources list so I can pull the source code packages off the Debian 
disks.

If I'm pulling the source code package from the CD and then doing a 
manual compile under SuSE myself, I don't expect I'll have any 
problems.

Regards,
Stephen.