Re: working with apt-get

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Douglas Kirkland(douglas@slugstone.net) is reported to have said:
> 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.
> 

If you can mount it, say on /mnt then
dpkg -i /mnt/<deb-file>  should do it.

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