Dulan Tevesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DT> I'm having problems installing simple packages with debian. I'm DT> currently running it on a laptop w/out any internet connectivity, and DT> its only way to get packages installed is via the A: floppy -
What's an "A: floppy"? If you mean "floppy disk on /dev/fd0 with a FAT filesystem mounted on /mnt", then... DT> However, every time I go to try to install a package, I get a DT> "/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/Packages does not exist." error, and it DT> refuses to install the package. Any help would be greatly DT> appreciated. How are you trying to install the package? dselect is overkill here, and it's difficult to convince it to work on a package it's not getting from its "normal" sources. (And it sounds like dselect is broken to boot; you probably want to download and install the 'apt' package and use it as your dselect backend.) Something along the lines of 'dpkg --install /mnt/foo_1.2-3.deb' should work quite nicely from the shell prompt as root. 'dpkg --help' will give you a (long) summary of dpkg's options; more information can be found in dpkg(8). -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
