On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 04:26:28PM +0800, ???? wrote: > What is a reasonable command to install a set of Debian packages stored in directory temp? > > A. dpkg -l temp > > B. dpkg -iGRE temp > > C. dpkg -l temp/*.deb > > D. dpkg -iGRE temp/*.deb > > > > the answer is B > > but why not BD ? > > why is D wrong? man dpkg (hint: read the part about --install)