Re: How to use/test locally packaged software?
On Fri 12 May 2000, Christopher Lee wrote:
> I am packaging some mathematical software I wrote during the course of
> my thesis research, which I would eventually like to contribute to
> Debian. For the time being, I would like to put the debs into a
> directory tree on my local machine which I could then add to my
> sources.list to install via apt.
Why all that bother? If you've built a .deb and want to install it,
why not simply "dpkg -i my.deb" ? What am I missing?
Paul Slootman
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