Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 10:17:11AM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:49:34PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:23:49PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > From the directory that the deb is in:
> > > dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb
> > >
> > > If it complains that there are missing dependencies, curse, wish you had used
> > > aptitude, and install them.
> >
> > Get the dependencies the same way you got
> > wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb "rinse and repeat"
> >
> > Watch out for circular dependencies, for that you need
> >
> > "dpkg -i package1.deb package2.deb" where package1 and package2 are the
> > two packages involved. Adjust if necessary for more than two packages
> > involved.
>
> It's a lot easier to do this with apt-zip.
or apt-offline. But in this case, for the sake of half a dozen or so
packages it might be too much bother.
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