Re: How to get bo packages?

[Tom Kuiper <kuiper@dsnra.jpl.nasa.gov>]

> Tom Kuiper wrote:
> > Dear Joey and group,
> > 
> > I'm sorry that my original posting was not clear.  I did go to 
> > ftp://archive.debian.org/ but there is no Packages.gz file there, so
> > dselect won't work.
> 
> Maybe I haven't read careful enough, in that case... oups... update
> manually.
> 
I haven't done this before but reading the Debian User's Guide suggests
that I should fine the appropriate .deb files on the ftp side, download them,
and run 'dpkg -i file.deb'.  Is that right?

How's the weather in Denmark?

Thanks and regards

Tom
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