Re: 2 apt-get questions

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Thursday 06 February 2003 04:09 am, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:08:52AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > 1) How can I specify the source site to use to retreive a specific
> > package? (In this case, I added download.kde.org with all the info to
> > point to the KDE 3.1 packages, but apt doesn't seem to see anything above
> > KDE 2.2, even after apt-get update).
>
> Add the appropriate line in /etc/apt/sources.list.  If you're not sure
> what to add, http://www.apt-get.org/ can help you.

Already added.  It shows up in the output when I do apt-get update, but it 
still doesn't seem to be aware of the new versions.

> > 2) How can I install a .deb file that I've downloaded with my
> > browser?
>
> dpkg -i /path/to/package.deb

Thanks.  I didn't realize dpkg was involved.