From: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@attbi.com>
To: GQ Kokidko <gqkokidko@hotmail.com>
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Help installing packages (newbie but refusing to give up)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 06:55:48 -0700 (PDT)
On 16-Apr-2002 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
>
the tools do not blindly read all of the deb files in a directory and hand
them
to you. They require a Packages file which contains the already parsed
package
info (name, size, description, depends, etc). What you can do is create
this
file. dpkg-scanpackages will do it for you. Note the file is expected to
be
gzipped.
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