[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Until newbie can connect to net under linux, he > is stuck with having to use win3.1 machine to download > .deb's from debian.org. But then, when puts floppy > with .deb in linux machine, apt-get can't seem to > understand simple directions. Migrate to floppy, > type apt-get install filename.deb and NOTHING > happens. There must be some way to do something > this simple... TIA dave
You should use dpkg to install a single package, but if you insist to use apt-get, you first need to update the source list, probably you can't do an "apt-get update", because you haven't yet set your net access, but you could manually copy the list files in the /var/state/apt/list directory, and after this you could use "apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="/floppy" install your_package" (you need to create a directory called "partial" in your floppy)... I think is quicker the dpkg option, anyway there is an interesting little manual (/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.html) that describe how to update a Debian machine without net access... Andrea
