Easy. read the man on dpkg. if you stored all those .deb's in one dir I believe you can jsut use: dpkg -i *.deb
:) Falchion Deep Linux/Life thought of the day: The answer to most problems is man. On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Robin Collins wrote: > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:38:07 -0400 (EDT) > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > From: "Robin Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: First post to list: Make .deb archive available to dselect? > > Hi, > > I've recently started using Debian after some time with SuSE and am > finding > lots about Debian I like better, not the least is dpkg/dselect/apt. > > One thing I've done is to accumulate a number of updated packages off the > Web which replace those on the potato CD. I now want to re-install on a > second machine from scratch and wonder how I can have dselect recognise > the > accumulated .debs. As far as I can see I need to create a Package.gz for > dselect's benefit but don't really know where to look for information on > how > to do this. > > Is it possible? > > Cheers, > Robin Collins > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > >