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Re: working with apt-get



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.

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