[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere on a >system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have >Packages.gz files (how are those created anyhow?).
You need a Packages.gz file. They're not hard to create, though. dpkg-scanpackages produces Packages files given an archive (it doesn't necessarily have to be organized the same way as the Debian archive) and an "override file" stating sections and priorities; you then gzip the output. dpkg-scansources does a similar thing for source archives. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
