Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 15:34, Sharninder wrote:
> > If you just have the debs, and only want to update one machine,
> > the right way is to download the debs and install the using
> > dpkg.
> > Then to keep up to date you might want to add the repository from
> > where you got the packets from to your sources.list.
> >
> > deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/
> > woody main
>
> as i said .. i have already mirrored the
> ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1/Debian/* hierarchy using wget -c -r
> ...Now i want to use this to install kde3.1 to my desktop. There are
> more than 250MBs of debs. Can't I just give the name of some
> metapackage like kde .. and install everything.
> Sharninder Singh
> National Institute Of Management, Calcutta
This is dirty but it worked for me:
if you have all the deb packages in your hard disc, go to that directory and
issue this:
find . -name '*deb' -exec dpkg --force-all -i {} \;
this traverses down file hierarcy and installs each deb package without
considering any dependencies, and removing previous versions ruthlessly. Then
all becomes installed but some unsatisfied dependencies emerges.
To correct these be sure you have a debian mirror in your
/etc/apt/sources.list and issue
apt-get update
apt-get install -f
Use your at your own risk though.
Oguz.
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