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RE: Install problem



Dpkg itself doesn't need to know the `proper' (long) name of the
package, but the frontends to it (dselect, apt) may.

You can use wildcards with dpkg.  e.g., "dpkg -i *" will try to install
all the packages in the current working directory, "dpkg -i */*.deb"
will attempt to install all the .deb files in directories in the cwd.

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On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Owens, Jerry wrote:

> 		I have been able to get past my previous problems with
> the base system loading. Now when I reboot the machine and it starts to
> load the packages, it doesn't like the fact that they ate stored on a
> dos drive which limits the file names to 8 characters. Is there any way
> to get around this?


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