>>>>> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian C. White writes ("Re: How to handle new packages"): >> > As I understand dselect, it looks at the Packages file to determine >> > the list of packages, their dependencies, and whatever else. >> > >> > Suppose I want to upgrade a single package. I grab the .deb file. >> > But now what? The Packages file doesn't know about the new package. >> > >> > I know I could install it using dpkg, but isn't there a way to tell >> > dselect about the new package? >> >> Use: dpkg --install package-name-version.deb
> If you just want to tell dselect about it, rather than installing it, > you can say `dpkg --update-avail foobar*.deb', but it seems rather > silly just to do this by hand :-). But suppose that foobar requires other packages. Wouldn't it then make sense to do the --update-avail, then go into dselect to see what other packages I may have to install as well. Then, if I either don't have or don't want these other packages or don't have the disk space or whatever, I can just forget about installing foobar. -- Steve Preston ([EMAIL PROTECTED])