Re: installing packages
Jason Errol Draut wrote:
>
> I have downloaded the linux base system from debian, and want to install
> some of the other packages, like man pages, gcc, emacs, etc. Simple stuff
> that I've used in Unix... But when I get the downloads onto my base
> system, I don't know what to do. The *.deb files are listed as
> executables, so I tried typing the file names... nothing ... I tried gzip
> to decompress them , but they're not gzip files... Any suggestions? What
> am I missing? There's no explaination on the debian website about
> installing packages.
>
I'm sure others can give more info but take a look at 'man dpkg' I've
never installed more than a few .debs at a time so there may be a more
efficient way possibly through dselect or apt or dpkg but you can
install individual .debs with,
dpkg -i filename.deb
hth,
kent
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