Re: Very Selective upgrade

[Jeff Coppock <jcoppock1@home.com>]

Tom Allison, 2001-Sep-04 19:02 -0400:
> 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?

What you want is:

# apt-get -d install packagename

This will only download the package and store it in
/var/cache/apt/archives as a .deb file

Now you can install it from this directory:

# cd /var/cache/apt/archives
# dpkg -i packagename.deb

jc

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