On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:41:34AM -0400, Colin Bell wrote: > When I state in the sources.list file that apt can look in the unstable tree > it seems to automatically tell itself to remove a whole bunch of packages. > I'm really getting bitter. I know I could just go to Redhat and grab that > and install it but this is a labour of love. I see the power of apt and > dselect I just don't know how to harness it. Maybe I'm just supposed to grab > single debs off the net, I don't know.
if you have a set of CDs, use apt-cdrom, list the CDs in your sources.list and install a set of packages which you want. then update them using ftp after that, comment out the lines in sources.list, type apt-setup and create a sources.list with download sites. run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com
