On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:00:22PM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > My suggestion is, use dselect to choose what program to install (dselect will > check for dependencies) use "apt-get dselect-upgrade --print-uris to get the > list of package to download with windo~1.
A good idea. But apt-get will need to know about the available packages, so you will need to also download the Packages file. Put it somewhere on your harddisk and create a "deb file:/$path" line in /etc/apt/sources.list, so apt will find the Packages file when you do an update. > Now, you have three options, install them manually with dpkg (tedious and > boring > and prone to errors), install them using dselect (but i don't remember where > dselect stores the downloaded packages) or use apt-get telling him where to > find > the downloaded packages, something like 'apt-get --o > dir::cache::archives="/mnt/debian-packages/" --dselect-upgrade', supposing you > have mounted your windo~1 partition in "/mnt" and the downloaded packages are > under "debian-packages" directory... Put the debs in /var/cache/apt/archives, apt-get will find them there. Cheers, Joost