Comment 18 for bug 255545

Thanks for your help tz.

Just updating back here on how I fixed this for others in the same boat:

I downloaded the apt deb package from here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy-updates/apt

Then I copied it across to the server that didn't have internet connectivity and can only be updated using the cdrom images.

Then I ran "dpkg -i apt_0.7.9ubuntu17.1_i386.deb" as root.

Then I could "apt-cdrom add" successfully. I did get some errors about "Skipping non-exisiting file", but I could apt-get upgrade / apt-get dist-upgrade successfully to 8.10.