Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?

[Levi Waldron <ledawa@softhome.net>]

Just curious, why did you make up a CD of .debs and other programs, as 
opposing to installing directly from a debian online source using apt (ie, 
apt-get install package-name?  If you don't know what I'm talking about, fess 
up and we'll point you in the right direction.  The easiest way to install 
debs directly from your cd would be:

mount /cdrom
dpkg -i /cdrom/packagename.deb

For non-deb files, 
alien /cdrom/packagename.tar.gz 
will convert it to a deb to be installed as above.


On November 26, 2002 02:53 pm, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> Thanks,
> What kind of info goes into a Packages.gz file (hate to be such a newbie
> but I'm transferring from the windows world).
> I looked at 'man apt-cdrom' and got really confused so any help you can
> offer is appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> mw.