Re: Very Selective upgrade

[Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com>]

Rolf Heckemann wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:35:04AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
>
> > Thanks to all that replied.
> > I know that under dselect I can "hold" various packages.
> > And if I edit the sources.list I can add a set of 'testing' entries.
> >
> > I suppose I can do the .deb download and installs myself but I was 
> > hoping for some manner in which I could use something like dpkg to 
> > specify a network location for a .deb package and have it (dpkg) 
> > download and install that package for me.
>
> Your reply makes me wonder whether you have actually read and tried
> the suggestions made.  What you are looking for is apt-get.
I was looking for something maybe like this:
dpkg -i ftp.debian.org./lots of path stuff/filename.deb
But it doesn't work that way, does it?