On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:08:50PM -0800, Corey Edwards wrote: > Your idea sounds good to me, but I'm new to apt having just > installed it last week. I do know, however, that dpkg -i > package-name.deb will replace the package and keep all the > dependencies correctly, so if you want to download the > actual deb file, you could do that. >
Thanks Corey, my problem is, that i don't see the most simple solution. apt-get install checks, if the package is already installed dpkg -i does not, so you are right. Regards, Ingo ---------------------------------------------------------------- I. Reimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inst. fuer Angew. Physik +49 251 83-33527 (fon) Correnstr. 2-4 +49 251 83-33513 (fax) D-48149 Muenster Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------