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Re: working with apt-get



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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.

You don't.

Instead, you use dpkg.  su -c 'dpkg -i /path/to/yourpackage.deb'

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