On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:51:07PM +0000, kentsin wrote: > I have the KDE packages to my debian box. It has many packages, how could I > make them aware to dselect? > I do something like this:
- put packages in a directory, say /usr/local/packages/potato/kde - cd /usr/local/packages - create an empty file named 'override' - dpkg-scanpackages /usr/local/packages/potato/kde override > potato/kde/Packages - Add in /etc/apt/sources.list the line: deb file:/usr/local/packages/ potato/kde/ - Run dselect, select 'apt' as access mode, execute the Update function and there you are (I hope ;) Ciao -- FB
