Marty Landman wrote:
I'm probably doing this all wrong, have put the distro in /root/debs
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UNCLELEO:~# ls -Al debs
total 2184
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Dec 10 18:25 Packages.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2225400 Dec 10 17:59
samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb
UNCLELEO:~# dpkg -i samba_3.0.20b
dpkg: error processing samba_3.0.20b (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
samba_3.0.20b
UNCLELEO:~#
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Can you help straighten me out here?
If you encounter problems on the command line the first resort would be
the man pages. If you just type
man dpkg
at the command line, you would get
dpkg -i | --install package_file...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Where this indicates that dpkg expects a _file_. There is a lot of
useful and important information found in man pages.
Apart from convenience (and that you might want to remember, where you
put it) it doesn't matter where you put it -- as long as you keep it out
of the directories under debian's command. Any place that starts with
/home seems a reasonable choice.
If your CD works for installation, but fails afterwards, there might be
something wrong with your config. Maybe you should try to get some sarge
CDs and install sarge.
Good luck with your machine.
Johannes
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