Re: Using apt

[dude <dude@deletia.com>]

you could look
at man dpkg
and in particular look
at dpkg -i <package>

This will at least install the debs you have
loaded up

G


On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Jamie Wood wrote:

> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:03:50 +0100 (BST)
> From: Jamie Wood <andrew.wood@ic.ac.uk>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Using apt
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi - I'm a little confused by apt and wonder how I can best make use of
> it...
>
> Basically I can download packages for free from work and then bring them
> home on ZIP to my computer there. What is the best way of maintaining an
> archive on the computer that has all the deb files?
>
> I currently have a directory /usr/local/src/debs but I can't make an entry
> in /etc/apt/sources.list that will make dselect automatically see this
> directory as a source.... Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jamie
>
>
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