1) Download the modules that you want with rsync for example, I use this script:
---
#!/bin/sh
root=/home/ernesto/KDE_rsync/dists/potato
cd "$root" exec rsync -v -az --delete --delete-excluded \ --exclude source/ \ --exclude incoming/ \ --exclude changes/ \ --exclude binary-alpha/ \ --exclude binary-m68k/ \ --exclude binary-sparc/ \ --exclude binary-powerpc/ \ kde.tdyc.com::kde/dists/potato/ . ---
2) Add to sources.list the line:
deb file:/home/ernesto/KDE_rsync potato main crypto beta
3) I usually use the dselect tool so you have to do an update
That's all. Hope this where usefull. Greettings. Ernesto.
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 :-(
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.
