Re: dselect question

[dA' Phucilage Phactory <phucilag@phucilage.net>]

On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Shaleh wrote:

> is there a way to make dselect look at a directory and install .deb
> files from it.  Say I download a few files to /usr/local/debian.  How
> can I get dselect to give me the option of installing these new deb
> files?


 dselect is a front end for 'dpkg' just use it, ie, dpkg -i <package>.deb
for example.


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