On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:12:42 +0000 Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:40:52AM -0800, Raquel wrote: > > > > I don't think that Umarzuki was saying to "circumvent the apt > > tools". If you go to the site he indicated, you'll see that the > > downloads are ".deb" files, so aptitude/apt would be used to > > install VirtualBox from virtualbox.org. > > What happens on 'apt-get dist-upgrade' #? > > What should happen? > You have downloaded to your machine and pointed to the appropriate location in sources.list. It is up to you to make sure you have the most current version available and saved to the same place everytime. Then "dist-upgrade" works just the same as when pointing to a Debian distro mirror. -- Raquel http://www.byraquel.com ============================================================ I watched my country turn into a coast-to-coast strip mall and I cried out in a song: if we could do all that in thirty years, then please tell me, you all -- why does good change take so long? Why does the color of your skin or who you choose to love still lead to such anger and pain? --Greg Brown, "The Poet Game" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org