Comment 2 for bug 159721

I was able to install the packages that I had on my cd partially in synaptic. In synaptic, click File->Add downloaded packages and point it to the directory on your cd that contains all of the debs (don't remember exactly which one, poke around and you will find it). A bit disappointed that nobody from the authors of this app. replied to this bug. Looks like it is not maintained anymore.