Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???
Ionut Borcoman at debian wrote:
> Just try to use apt and observed it is missing something (at least this
> is how I see this): it doesn't have a [scan] facility. In other words,
> it will not let you install packages if you do not have a Packages.gz
> file and if the files aren't placed where Packagez.gz says. Do am I
> missing something here ? Because in this way you are forbiden to take
> some .deb files from the net, put them in a local directory and use
> dselect to install them !
This "scan" functionality is in the program called dpkg-scanpackages. Use it
like
dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages
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see shy jo
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