Re: KDE install from a directory
On Sunday 01 April 2001 07:20, Viktor Lakics wrote:
> I am new to Debian. Just installed potato, and want to put KDE2.1.
> I have all the KDE deb packages from kde.debian.net in a directory
> /data/KDE.
>
> How should I put this path into my /etc/apt/sources.list for
> installing KDE from there (and not directly from the internet)?
>
> I want to do "apt-get install kdebase task-kde" to do this...
>
> Thanks in advance. -- Viktor
Yes, you can put it in your /etc/apt/sources.list. (I do it all the
time!) But the format would be something like this:
deb file:/data/KDE ./
First, HOWEVER, you have to create the magic Packages (or
Packages.gz) file. The program to do this is dpkg-scanpackages
(provided by the package "dpkg-dev").
If I understand your file system correctly, the first steps would be:
debian:/$ cd /data/KDE
debian:/data/KDE$ dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages
This creates a Packages file out of all the .deb's located below the
directory /data/KDE. (The "/dev/null" is to just disable some
abstruse dpkg-scanpackages option.) Then you add the line I mentioned
above to your sources.list.
----EXCERPT /etc/apt/sources.list----
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
deb file:/data/KDE ./
<SNIP, SNIP>
----END EXCERPT----
To make this setup work properly, you probably have to put this line
before any "deb http://"; or "deb ftp://"; sources. The you run:
debian:/$ apt-get update
After this you can presumably (if you have really downloaded all of
Ivan's stuff), run:
debian:/$ apt-get install task-kde kdebase
That's all there is to it.
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