how to using downloaded iso image directly instead of cutting a DVD
I have already installed ubuntu 11.04 using the CD iso image using a USB boot device.
Now I have downloaded the DVD iso image for Ubuntu 11.04.
I do not wish to make a DVD unnecessarily.
I wish to install more packages from this iso image using synaptic.
But synaptic is insisting on mounting a DVD or cdrom, and there appears no way to get it to pick from the iso file.
Even if I mount the iso image in a directory /media/cdrom it is not picking up the image.
What is the way to configure it to pick from iso image file, of a local directory without automatic cdrom mounting.
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- Ubuntu synaptic Edit question
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- Solved by:
- s bahadur
- Solved:
- 2011-09-17
- Last query:
- 2011-09-17
- Last reply:
- 2011-09-17
You need to mount the ISO with something like:
sudo mkdir /media/iso; sudo mount -o loop /path/to/
Simply change /path/to/
deb file:///
But I can't remember the rest. I found it in a guide online so you may be able to find it (Getting ready for work now). But mounting the ISO is the first step
| s bahadur (bahadur-sameer) said : | #2 |
I tried the following
> sudo apt-cdrom -m add
- from the messages figured out that it was looking for files in /media/apt
mounted the iso at /media/apt
> sudo mount -o loop /path/to/
re-tried
> sudo apt-cdrom -m add
- this time it successfully marked some update
ran "synaptic" (network remained disconnected)
- it listed a new additional entry in the Repositories
- all the DVD packages got listed
- could successfully install packages
Great share! Hopefully others will find this and get fixed using your instruction :)
Glad you got the gold
| s bahadur (bahadur-sameer) said : | #4 |
Further runs of synaptic required the archive to be mounted at the location
- /media/cdrom instead of /media/apt
so I'm not sure how the apt-cdrom command helped.
