Rolf Heckemann wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:35:04AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
>
>>Thanks to all that replied.
>>I know that under dselect I can "hold" various packages.
>>And if I edit the sources.list I can add a set of 'testing' entries.
>>
>>I suppose I can do the .deb download and installs myself but I was
>>hoping for some manner in which I could use something like dpkg to
>>specify a network location for a .deb package and have it (dpkg)
>>download and install that package for me.
>>
>
> Your reply makes me wonder whether you have actually read and tried
> the suggestions made. What you are looking for is apt-get.
>
I was looking for something maybe like this:
dpkg -i ftp.debian.org./lots of path stuff/filename.deb
But it doesn't work that way, does it?
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