Re: How to install a .deb from floppy???

[John Griffiths <john@capmon.com>]

At 07:52 PM 1/18/2001 EST, DTi4565459@aol.com wrote:
>Until newbie can connect to net under linux, he
>is stuck with having to use win3.1 machine to download
>.deb's from debian.org.  But then, when puts floppy
>with .deb in linux machine, apt-get can't seem to 
>understand simple directions.  Migrate to floppy,
>type apt-get install filename.deb and NOTHING 
>happens.  There must be some way to do something
>this simple...  TIA  dave
don't use apt

#dpkg -i foo.deb

will do it nicely (looks a lot like RPM to be honest)