Re: dpkg: howto
Phlip wrote:
>
> Hello
> I got some xwindows stuff off the Debian site and I am stumped as to how
> to use dpkg to uncomprees? them? I put them on an msdos floppy but
> cannot minipulate them with dpkg.
> There is another prog called dpkg-xxx that I was able to view them with
> and that worked fine but I cannot get anything working with dpkg. I
> viewed the help files but they are of little use to me
> Thanks
> Paul
>
You shouldn't need to just uncompress them. If you want to install them
then "dpkg -i name_of_deb_file.deb" will do the trick.
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