On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:39:23PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Andreas Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:04:01AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > >> dpkg -i blah.deb > >> [...] > > > > If you decided to uninstall 'blah.deb', wouldn't you run into > > trouble? > > Of what sort? dpkg doesn't need the package file to uninstall an > installed package. > > > One may create a 'Packages' file for some extra deb-package: > ... > > Additional entry in /etc/apt/sources.list: > > The only thing this gains you is having your packages not be > advertised as "obsolete or locally installed" in dselect or aptitude. > It also might be a win if you're sharing custom packages between > several machines using a local Web server or a shared filesystem. > > [...]
Thanks for your suggestions, Mr. Maze. I just tried out installing an extra deb-package called phoenix via dpkg -i ...much simpler anyway :) Interestingly I found no difference in dselect's hanling: It is listed under 'Up-to-date Extra packages in section alien' as it was before. I have no experience with aptitude yet. Removing/purging the package again was no problem at all. I tend to use dselect all the time. Kind regards, Andreas.