[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 19-Dec-2000 David Z. Maze wrote: > > Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > M> Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere > > on a > > M> system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have > > M> Packages.gz files > > > > Nope. > > > > M> (how are those created anyhow?). > > > > Install the dpkg-dev package, and look at the dpkg-scanpackages > > program and its documentation. > > Thanks will do that. Maybe I will find what I'm looking for there. > > > > > M> The reason I ask is, that I have a system that has fast internet > > access > > M> and apt-get works great in such a situation. I also want to use the > > M> downloaded packages, which I have apt-get leave undeleted, to update > > my > > M> home system, which has only a 14400 Baud connection for e-mail, by > > M> placing them on a CD. So far I had to install them manually via dpkg > > -i. > > M> Apt-get was useless in that situation (or I did not know how to make > > it > > M> usefull). > > > > What's wrong with using 'dpkg --install'? 'apt-get's major utility > > here is in automagically downloading packages other packages depend > > on, but if you don't have any way to download packages you aren't > > installing then it's far less useful. > > Well apt-get allows upgrading with dpkg -i I have to do it by hand and in > the correct order, which is a pain if you want to upgrade 100s of > packages or only install kde2 instead of the version potato comes with. > I'd like a way to do apt-get upgrade at home too, but without Internet > access and using the Packages that I download on the other computer. > [...]
You could copy the packages in "/var/cache/apt/archives/" and the file you find in "/var/state/apt/lists/", modify the "/etc/apt/sources.list" to use the same source, launch "apt-get update" (and ignore the message about the index file failed to download, apt will use the list files you copied), and use "apt-get install your_package". You could copy the package in a directory of your choice, for example in your home, and using this new directory instead of the default with "apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="/mnt/guest/pack/" install your_package". In "/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.text.gz" you will find more tips... Andrea
