On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:04:01AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 08:31:50PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I want to install some software that I downloaded as a .deb file, > > but it did not come from a Debian mirror. Instead it came from a ftp > > download from a developer's web site. The only way I have ever used > > dselect, dpkg, or apt-get have been to get stuff from a Debian > > mirror and then unpack and install it. This happened all > > automatically. Now I have a file in my home directory. Where do I > > put it? What commands and options do I use? > > dpkg -i blah.deb > [...]
If you decided to uninstall 'blah.deb', wouldn't you run into trouble? One may create a 'Packages' file for some extra deb-package: localhost:~# cd /usr/local localhost:/usr/local# mkdir debs localhost:/usr/local# cd debs localhost:/usr/local/debs# mkdir package_name localhost:/usr/local/debs# cp path/to/debfile package_name localhost:/usr/local/debs# dpkg-scanpackages package_name\ some_empty_override_file\ debs/ > Packages Additional entry in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb file:/usr/local debs/ This way installing or uninstalling may be more properly achieved. At least I have been doing it this way, and it has been working fine. Any comments? Kind regards, Andreas.