On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 08:17:15AM -0700, Douglas Kirkland wrote: > I have a .deb file from www.apt-get.org that I have burned on to a cd. My > laptop does not have a network connection yet. I am wondering howto use > apt-get to get the file off the cd? The cd is not a debian cd. > Hi, just use dpkg instead of apt-get. Eg, dpkg -i package_file.deb to install. Have a look at man dpkg. E.