Okay,
I found some instructions on how to update ubuntu packages (i.e. orca) without
an internet connection. One of the steps doesn't seem to work.
I went to http://packages.ubuntu.com/) and went through the contents and
downloaded orca and all it's dependencies (and ependencies of dependencys, and
dependencies of dependencies of dependencies, ad infinitum), and the same for
firefox-3 (advice from orca mailing lists says it works better than firefox-2).
I moved all this into a folder on a usb drive called debs. I went back to my
ubuntu computer and added the following line to my /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb file:/media/disk debs/
The directions I found indicated that for apt to understand what is in there I
need to run the following command
>>sudo dpkg-scanpackages /media/disk/debs /dev/null | gzip
>>>/media/disk/debs/Packages.gz
But dpkg-scanpackages appears to be an invalid command. I looked under dpkg
--help but could not find a simullar function. Does anyone know what the
replacement for dpkg-scanpackages is? Or what i need to do so apt-get can
navigate the deb files on the usb?
--Thank you
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