Re: Help installing packages (newbie but refusing to give up)
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 15:03, GQ Kokidko wrote:
> the Packages and Packages.gz files were downloaded w/ the directories of all
> the packages and placed on my win partition w/ the other packages (wow, that
> was a tongue twister). Just to be safe I gave it a try anyway by deleting
> Packages and Packages.gz and running "dpkg-scanpackages" which returned
> "command not found". I then tried "dpkg -scanpackages" returning "unknown
> option -c" then "dpkg --scanpackages" wich failed as well. Any other
> suggestions? Thanks for the help
dpkg-scanpackages is part of dpkg-dev
find the package and install it with dpkg and you should be able to do
it.
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