Bruce Byfield wrote:
On Sat, 2005-22-10 at 22:35 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
Apt-get calls on dpkg for installing and removing programs, so using
dpkg is the same as using apt-get.
Not quite. dpkg allows me to install packages that weren't found
through sources.list like the packages mentioned at the OpenOffice web
site and earlier in this thread. Maybe this can be done with apt-get
but I don't know how.
You seem to misunderstand what I am saying. I'm saying that apt-get does
not install or remove packages by itself. When you install or remove
packages using apt-get, you are really using dpkg through apt-get at one
remove. That's why, for example, having installed something with dpkg,
you can use apt-get to remove it.
Yes, I do understand that. I have been using Debian sid for about four
years now.
They are not unconnected programs, as you seem to be saying.
I don't think what I said implies that.
In other
words, it doesn't matter if you use dpkg or apt-get to install a
package. There's no difference
in the result.
Clear.
Does apt-get give access to *all* dpkg commands?
If you really want to, you can create a sources.list entry to the
directory where the .deb packages are stored in the following format:
deb file:/<directory>
Directory paths should be added without the usual forward slash. For
instance, if the directory is /root/debs, then you would add:
deb file:/root debs
As I mentioned that's the part I didn't know. Thank you for that.
However, there is no point in taking this extra step with dpkg around.
Except I use aptitude most of the time and this last part saves me going
in and out of aptitude since aptitude holds a lock so I can't run dpkg
while aptitude is running. In this case I could have gotten OOo 2.0
installed somewhat faster.
I also guessed that I could figure out to get packages into
/var/cache/apt/archives without confusing dpkg or aptitude.
Thanks,
Paul
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