Jason Errol Draut wrote: > > I have downloaded the linux base system from debian, and want to install > some of the other packages, like man pages, gcc, emacs, etc. Simple stuff > that I've used in Unix... But when I get the downloads onto my base > system, I don't know what to do. The *.deb files are listed as > executables, so I tried typing the file names... nothing ... I tried gzip > to decompress them , but they're not gzip files... Any suggestions? What > am I missing? There's no explaination on the debian website about > installing packages. >
I'm sure others can give more info but take a look at 'man dpkg' I've never installed more than a few .debs at a time so there may be a more efficient way possibly through dselect or apt or dpkg but you can install individual .debs with, dpkg -i filename.deb hth, kent