Re: Help installing packages (newbie but refusing to give up)
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 18:27, GQ Kokidko wrote:
> I am a new user and have installed the base system of the stable debian
> linux on hdb1 and windows 2000 on hda1. I can boot to linux and windows and
> have lilo configured properly but dselect and tasksel aren't able to find
> the packages (which are on hda1 in order to install them. Tasksel cant see
> them at all (is there a config file or something I can point it too) and
> dselect can see them to tell me whats
> available. After I go through the million and a half debian packages and
> choose what I want to install, when I go to install it either looks at a
> different location or doesn't find what it needs (even though I downloaded
> everything in the i386 binary directory and fails to install. Thanks for
> any help
>
> Matt Kokidko
I think there is something called dpkg-scanpackages that you could run
in the directory that contains the packages and then you can
install(read the man pages) or since you downloaded them all, you must
have a net connection on this machine. Is the problem that you just
cant get the net connection up under linux? If you can get a net
connection I would just recommend pointing your sources.list to a local
mirror and doing a dselect update and then tasksel or dselect and
everything should work automagically.
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