Evening, * Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> [031103 12:06]: > Osamu sama wrote: > > 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? > > The backslash was a typo (only in my message, not in sources.list). I > was just copying the model in apt-HOWTO (I thought). The problem seems > to be that aptitude update will take the storage directory above and > append it to /var/lib/apt/lists/, but I'm not sure. > > I'm sure there's a very simple answer to my question. I followed the > HOWTO and only managed to create a Packages.gz file, but no idea what > to do with it. Put it in /storage/debs/. Just to clarify, I would do something like: echo "deb file:/storage/ debs/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list dpkg-scanpackages /storages/debs /dev/null | gzip > /storage/debs/Packages.gz apt-get update apt-get install whatever HTH. Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux twofish 2.6.0-test9-looxt93c1 i686 GNU/Linux
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