In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Quoting Mitch Blevins([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > > Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and > > > sometimes I download a package over more than one dialup session, save it > > > in a directory and install it with dpkg. > > > > > > I have tried apt, but could not get it to install a package from a > > > directory on my hard disk - which is frustrating. It seems to me apt is > > > looking for the same directory structure that the debian mirrors have and > > > I am not going to mirror the whole structure on my hard disk. > > > > apt will assume a Debian archive structure unless you end your sources.list > > line with a directory separater. For example, if your deb files are in > > /home/jhspies/debian/mydebs/*, you would need to following line. > > > > deb file:/home/jhspies/debian mydebs/ > > > > Mitch > > Don't you need a Packages file in that dir for that to work?
Ooops. You're right. Create a Packages.gz file in the same directory as the debs using the dpkg-scanpackages command. Something like this should work... [prompt]$ cd /home/jhspies/debian/mydebs [prompt]$ dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null |gzip -c > Packages.gz Thanks, -Mitch