Re: how to install packages w/o package file?

1999-02-02 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > Is there a simple way to install these files without a package file? Someone else already posted how to use dpkg; if you want to stick with dselect, you can tell the `mounted' method that the distribution top level is "none", main binary dir is where your .debs are, and when it asks whe

Re: how to install packages w/o package file?

1999-01-29 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 10:38 (-0600), Brian Morgan wrote: > Could someone illustrate for me how to install these .deb files easily > without using dselect? If the packages are in your working directory: dpkg -i kdebase_981026-pre1.1-1_i386.deb etc. Luck, -- your man pann

how to install packages w/o package file?

1999-01-29 Thread Brian Morgan
I'm fairly new at using debian and I don't yet know how to install packages any other way than using dselect. I'm trying to install the newest kde, and have browsed to the appropriate deb distribution on ftp.kde.org, but the directory doesn't contain a package file. Is there a simple way to insta