Re: dependency hell + I want to keep deb installation files local ...

[Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com>]

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...  I editted /etc/apt/sources.list
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// __ http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html
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 2.2 How to use APT locally
 Sometimes you have lots of packages .deb that you would like to use
APT to install so that the dependencies would be automatically solved.
 To do that create a directory and put the .debs you want to index in
it . For example:
     # mkdir /root/debs
 You may modify the definitions set on the package's control file
directly for your repository using an override file. Inside this file
you may want to define some options to override the ones that come
with the package. It looks like follows:
     package priority section
 package is the name of the package, priority is low, medium or high
and section is the section to which it belongs. The file name does not
matter, you'll have to pass it as an argument for dpkg-scanpackages
later. If you do not want to write an override file, just use
/dev/null. when calling dpkg-scanpackages.
 Still in the /root directory do:
     # dpkg-scanpackages debs file | gzip > debs/Packages.gz
 In the above line, file is the override file, the command generates a
file Packages.gz that contains various information about the packages,
which are used by APT. To use the packages, finally, add:
     deb file:/root debs/
 After that just use the APT commands as usual. You may also generate
a sources repository. To do that use the same procedure, but remember
that you need to have the files .orig.tar.gz, .dsc and .diff.gz in the
directory and you have to use Sources.gz instead of Packages.gz. The
program used is also different. It is dpkg-scansources. The command
line will look like this:
     # dpkg-scansources debs | gzip > debs/Sources.gz
 Notice that dpkg-scansources doesn't need an override file. The
sources.list's line is:
     deb-src file:/root debs/
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 that doc (apparently in whole) has been tagged as OBSOLETE yet that
worked for me
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 lbrtchx