Re: dpkg
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> I am trying to install packages that came along with my Debian 2.0 CD
> (which is from one of the image CD). The installation utility program
> "dselect" confuses me with all the different screens. So I tried dpkg
> and it worked fine...for starters. I want to findout what are the
> different options that I can use with dpkg. dpkg -i xxx.deb installs
> the pakage but is there a option to make it check for the dependent
> pakages also and install them?
Use dpkg -I <package>
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