Re: Debian Packaging System and libncurses5-dev

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Benjamin Pharr <benpharr@freedom2000net.com> wrote:
>I needed to install libncurses5-dev, but it wasn't on the CD and my NIC 
>still isn't working in Linux.  (It's a NetGear FA311 if anyone has 
>experience with it.)  I switched into Win98, downloaded it, and went back 
>into Linux.  I copied the .deb file into /root/ and ran
>
>dpkg -A libncurses5-dev-yadayada.deb
>
>It said the information for package libncurses5-dev had been read from the 
>file.  Then I did a
>
>apt-get install libncurses5-dev
>
>It said the package couldn't be found.

Packages need to be in "aptable repositories", with the appropriate
Packages.gz files and so on (see dpkg-scanpackages(8)) before 'apt-get
install' can use them. However, you can just use dpkg directly: 'dpkg -i
libncurses5-dev_yadayada.deb'.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]