>?> ? But i already probed apt-cdrom and it don't work cos the disk is a
>?> ? common cdrom attached with a general computer magazine. It only have
>?> ? a folder dedicated to kde 2.1 for potato.
>?>
>?> ? The program apt-cdrom says me that the disk is not a Debian disk.
that means there's no packages.gz file giving a list of the packages on te cd
(or apt-cdrom doesn't find it possibly)
>?> ? My question today is: can i use apt-get if i add a line in
>?> ? sources.list?. My idea is that apt-get works only with http:// and
>?> ? ftp:// sites, but i need a file:// entrance.
might work IF there's a packages.gz file with the packages;
if you have a fast internet connection use you could also use the apt line
from kde.debian.net
>?My thought is why not just copy the kde-2.1 stuff into a directory,
>?then cd into that directory, then "dpkg -i *.deb"? ?That should see
>?all of the .debs you have in that directory and, if eveything you
>?need is there, it should install the stuff without much of a problem.
hm, not really dpkg doesn't deal with the dependencies for you automatically
(that's apt-get's job) ->so you'ld run into dependency problems
running "dpkg -i *.deb" ?repeatedly should work though, but you'll have to
ignore the error messages and keep going(eah run will install some packages,
which will avoid some errors on the next run, and so on)
oh, and use the ?"--abort-after=number" option of dpkg with number=500 or
so(default is 0), that'll lessen the number of runs you need some
there's probably some tool to generate a packages.gz file somewhere, ?but
right now I don't know which tool that is.
--
They say you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.
I wanted to know what I had, so I got rid of everything.
-- Steven Wright
