[PLUG] Debian Question (apt/sources.list)

[Patrick K Notz]

I'm trying to install KDE 2 and have a question about setting up my
sources.list file under Debian 2.2.  I have a slow net connection (PPP
dialup) so i downloaded the debs (binary-all and binary-i386) from
kde.tdyc.com on a school machine, burned them onto a CD and copied
them onto my personal machine.  Now, I'd like to drop them in a
directory, add THE APPROPRIATE LINE to my sources.list file and then
do the 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get install task-kde_2.0' etc.  My
question is how to form THE APPROPRIATE LINE.  I've tried the
following:

debs under: /usr/local/deb/kde2/dists/potato/kde2/binary-all and
            /usr/local/deb/kde2/dists/potato/kde2/binary-i386

then in sources.list I added the line

     deb file:/usr/local/deb/kde2 potato kde2

Finally, I run 'apt-get update' but apt-get complains about missing
Package files:

W: Couldn't stat source package list 'file: potato/kdes	Packages'
   (/var/state/apt/lists/_usr_local_deb_kde2_dists_potato_kde2_binary-i386_Packages)- stat (2 No such file or directory) 
   
(pardon possible typos... i'm retyping the errors etc.).

There are no Package files on kde.tdyc.com...  Any thoughts on how to
do this correctly? 

~ p

PS I know, I have the debs so I could use dpkg but this is something
I'd like to know how to do anyway.