On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:33:01PM -0700, Greg wrote: > "wireless assistnat" from sourceForge.net. The file is called > "wlassistant_0.5.4a-2_i386.deb" and is sitting in my home directory. > My question is how do I install this. From my desktop, I click on the You need to handle this from the command line. There may be some way to do it graphically -- maybe using Synaptic? -- but the command-line route is pretty straightforward. Just go to the command line and type dpkg -i wlassistant_0.5.4a-2_i386.deb to install the .deb file. There are a few caveats here: 1) You need to run that command as the root user. There are a few ways to do this, but the best is probably to use 'sudo'. If you don't know about sudo, now isn't the place to go into the details. Google around and you'll find plenty about how to get started with it. In the meantime, you can sign in as the root user using the 'su' command and the root password, then run the dpkg command from above. 2) The wireless assistant may depend on other packages that you've not installed. If so, the dpkg command above will give you some errors and say that it needs other packages. You'll then need to download these other packages and run 'dpkg -i' on them as well. If you can help it, it's better to get a package directly out of the apt system. Then you'd do something like sudo apt-get install wlassistant which would install all of wlassistant's dependencies first, then install wlassistant. But in this case, it looks like wlassistant is not in Debian, so you have no choice but to download and install other .deb files. That said, there are probably lots of other packages that *are* in Debian which do what you need, and it would be easier for you to use one of those. What are you trying to do with this package? We may be able to recommend others. -- Stephen R. Laniel steve@laniels.org +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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