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Re: First post to list: Make .deb archive available to dselect?



Easy. read the man on dpkg.  if you stored all those .deb's in one dir I
believe you can jsut use: dpkg -i *.deb

:)

Falchion
Deep Linux/Life thought of the day: The answer to most problems is man.  


On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Robin Collins wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:38:07 -0400 (EDT)
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> From: "Robin Collins" <robin.c.collins@cwcom.net>
> Subject: First post to list: Make .deb archive available to dselect?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently started using Debian after some time with SuSE and am
> finding
> lots about Debian I like better, not the least is dpkg/dselect/apt.
> 
> One thing I've done is to accumulate a number of updated packages off the
> Web which replace those on the potato CD.  I now want to re-install on a
> second machine from scratch and wonder how I can have dselect recognise
> the
> accumulated .debs.  As far as I can see I need to create a Package.gz for
> dselect's benefit but don't really know where to look for information on
> how
> to do this.
> 
> Is it possible?
> 
> Cheers,
> Robin Collins
> 
> 
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