Re: directly installing a deb package

[Andrea <molotov@dei.unipd.it>]

On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 23:10, Alex Hunsley wrote:
> I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install it. How do I
> tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it
> looking at the places in sources.list? The package is sitting in /tmp at the
> moment, and I've tried adding file:/tmp to sources.list, but still no luck - I
> think it's adding things like stable or main to the path.
> 

Normally dpkg -i package-name is enough, but if you want to use apt,
copy that package in /var/cacha/apt/archives (if you use sid, with
potato the location where apt keeps the package are), or try with
apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="/tmp/" install package-name (you need
to create a directory in temp, apt will tell the details you)...


Andrea