Dvd drive like repository

[Boxy]

Hi
I install Mx 21.3 on a PC without internet connexion.
I want complete the installation and I want design the Dvd drive like repository.
In Synaptic I uncheck all web repo and I want to know the exact link for Dvd drive for repo.
Thank you for your help.
(I am french, excuse me for my bad english)

[gimcrack]

I think it's this.

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 11.0.0 _Bullseye_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1

Make sure you.

sudo apt update

to update the changes.

[CharlesV]

Welcome in!

I'm not sure what your asking for will work. (A file based repo) You can install from a file, but all real 'repo' work is going to require a web service of some type I believe.

You can find the exact locations for how the system looks for a repo by going to synaptic packager and looking at the Repo's tab. All the pieces are there.

[dolphin_oracle]

there is no repo on an MX dvd. you could maybe set up one from a debian disc but I've never tried it.

and MX installation does not require an interent connection.

[gimcrack]

there is no repo on an MX dvd. you could maybe set up one from a debian disc but I've never tried it.

and MX installation does not require an interent connection.

Debian DVD repositories should work. I done it many times on many Debian base distro's. Just have to set it up in the source.list. Like I thought OP had and was referring to.

[pianokeyjoe]

I would like to add from personal experience with limited or no internet connection issues in the past when trying to setup MX machines with software that was NOT in the MX DVD image that I installed MX from; Debian Linux OS discs can be enabled and used for your Debian only based packages when you do not have internet, however for MX LINUX specific packages made by the MX team for that said MX release, you are hard pressed to setup a "custom cdrom disc repo of files" to handle MX packages to handle dependencies without the net. I tried.. Failed. You can, once you do have internet, collect all packages that synaptic downloads prior to installation of said packages and back them up on some really large capacity hard drive like I do, to have offline access to those packages for that existing installation or future installations of MX Linux of the SAME release version, on other non internet machines.. Caveat is that you will still have dependency hell as you still can not easily add your downloaded packages folder as a debian APT system approved source in any Debian based system. What you are asking is only possible in an RPM based system like SuSE Linux or Redhat Linux. Those Linux distros(in the past at least) allowed you to collect packages you collected from the internet at an internet cafe for instance or from the package manager's cache after those packages where first installed or from the distro install CDs "packages" folder that you simply copied over to your hard drive for local access instead of having to always insert a CD or find an internet connection when it was not possible. If this is what @Boxy is trying to accomplish with MX Linux, sorry to say, MX is not capable of that setup or I would have done it myself and posted my results in the Forum. You could try and clone the entire MX repo to your hdd.. I would try that if you have a Server with 4 or more 2TB drives in it. But for a CDROM or DVDROM based setup? Sadly no..

[Stevo]

You can use local-apt-repository on the isolated machine along with the Synaptic download script on a connected machine, plus sneakernet, to sort of emulate that kind of feature.

[timkb4cq]

It's certainly possible to use the apt-mirror package to create a local MX repository on a hard drive. It won't fit on a DVD though.