Marty Landman wrote:
I'm probably doing this all wrong, have put the distro in /root/debs ---------------------------------------- UNCLELEO:~# ls -Al debs total 2184 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Dec 10 18:25 Packages.gz-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2225400 Dec 10 17:59 samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.debUNCLELEO:~# dpkg -i samba_3.0.20b dpkg: error processing samba_3.0.20b (--install): cannot access archive: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: samba_3.0.20b UNCLELEO:~# ---------------------------------------- Can you help straighten me out here?
If you encounter problems on the command line the first resort would be the man pages. If you just type
man dpkg
at the command line, you would get
dpkg -i | --install package_file...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Where this indicates that dpkg expects a _file_. There is a lot of
useful and important information found in man pages.
Apart from convenience (and that you might want to remember, where you put it) it doesn't matter where you put it -- as long as you keep it out of the directories under debian's command. Any place that starts with /home seems a reasonable choice.
If your CD works for installation, but fails afterwards, there might be something wrong with your config. Maybe you should try to get some sarge CDs and install sarge.
Good luck with your machine. Johannes