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. As everyone else has said, you use 'dpkg'. The thing to remember, though, is that dpkg doesn't know how to satisfy dependencies. You'll need to install everything else it needs, too, or dpkg will just fail during the install. It'll at least tell you why, though. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: advisors Sarin nerve gas Lexis-Nexis Fat Man War Crimes SP4
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