Re: Packages on a cd..
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:09:01AM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote:
| At 09:02 PM 12/30/01 -0500, dman wrote:
| >On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:28:01AM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote:
| >| What's the simpliest way to see what packages i got on a debian cd,using
| >| command line?
| >
| >'ls' :-).
| >
| >Just mount the disk and browse it. The packages are all .deb files.
|
| Uhm.. well,i know.. mount,ls ,hehe but there are lots of directories and
| many are empty..
| another quick and smart solution?
(Assume the cd is mounted as /mnt/cdrom)
$ find /mnt/cdrom -name \*.deb -print
will list all the .deb files in the directory /mnt/cdrom and any
subdirectories. Also "ls -R" lists recursively. There is also an
organization to the directories so that apt knows where to find a
given package.
-D
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