Denis NICOLAS wrote: > > Hi! > > I've downloaded the KDE2 packages for potato (from > ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/2.0/distribution/deb/Debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/). > But as I'm new to Debian, I don't quite know what to do with them now... > I've messed around for a while with apt-get (a "Packages" file seems to > be missing), dselect and dpkg, to no avail :-( > > Could anyone please help me? > > Cheers! > > --
dpkg -R /home/foo should install all deb packages in the directory foo. While I haven't tested it it should work according to dpkg --help Alternate would be to install package by package with dpkg -i foo.deb hunting for dependencies (ugh !) . For apt or dselect you need to create the packages.gz file in the directory. You can do that with dpkg-scanpackages . Also you can add the relevant line in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps do an apt-get update then to avoid redownloading all pacakges again just copy them from where they are to /var/cache/apt/archives apt will check the dependencies and download only what you don't have already. But you have to do the update first so apt knows what those packages are about. -- The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. Alan Saporta
