Re: How to install a .deb from floppy???
man dpkg
Specifically -i switch from memory.
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To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: How to install a .deb from floppy???
> 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
>
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