Re: .deb packages from outside debian/dists/ ?

2002-02-12 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
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? >

Re: .deb packages from outside debian/dists/ ?

2002-02-12 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:32:38AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Andreas Hetzmannseder quotation: > > > > dpkg -i blah.deb > > > [...] > > > > If you decided to uninstall 'blah.deb', wouldn't you run into trouble? > > > > One may create a 'Packages' file for some extra deb-package: > >

Re: .deb packages from outside debian/dists/ ?

2002-02-12 Thread David Z Maze
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 pa

Re: .deb packages from outside debian/dists/ ?

2002-02-12 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Andreas Hetzmannseder quotation: > > dpkg -i blah.deb > > [...] > > If you decided to uninstall 'blah.deb', wouldn't you run into trouble? > > One may create a 'Packages' file for some extra deb-package: > > localhost:~# cd /usr/local > localhost:/usr/local# mkdir debs > loc

Re: .deb packages from outside debian/dists/ ?

2002-02-12 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:04:01AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 08:31:50PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I want to install some software that I downloaded as a .deb file, > > but it did not come from a Debian mirror. Instead it came from a ftp > > download from a developer'

Re: .deb packages from outside debian/dists/ ?

2002-02-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 08:31:50PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want to install some software that I downloaded as a .deb file, but it > did not come from a Debian mirror. Instead it came from a ftp download > from a developer's web site. The only way I have ever used dselect, dpkg, or > apt-get

Re: .deb packages from outside debian/dists/ ?

2002-02-09 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Paul E Condon quotation: > I want to install some software that I downloaded as a .deb file, but it > did not come from a Debian mirror. Instead it came from a ftp download > from a developer's web site. The only way I have ever used dselect, dpkg, or > apt-get have been to get stuff from

.deb packages from outside debian/dists/ ?

2002-02-09 Thread Paul E Condon
I want to install some software that I downloaded as a .deb file, but it did not come from a Debian mirror. Instead it came from a ftp download from a developer's web site. The only way I have ever used dselect, dpkg, or apt-get have been to get stuff from a Debian mirror and then unpack and insta