On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:15:06PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> I've spent some time pouring over apt-HOWTO, and just don't
> understand. I want to use aptitude to install a local .deb file. I
> place it in my /storage/debs.
>
> In the HOWTO, it said to do this:
>
> deb file:/storage debs\
^ What is this back slash?
> But when I run aptitude update, it says the line is malformed.
>
> How does one use aptitude to install a local deb file?
Osamu