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's web

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

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 package.

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 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? Of what sort?

.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

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 a

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