On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:54:11PM -0000, Tommy McDaniel wrote: > That doesn't seem like to me like what I want to do, but it could be. > Basically, I downloaded the basic files to install Linux on my Windows > partition and now want to use dselect to install packages, which will also > have to be downloaded onto the Windows partition before being transferred > over manually to the Linux partition. I read > /usr/share/doc/apt/offline.text.gz, but unfortunately it didn't really solve > my problem. I don't have another working Linux computer with apt on it to > download the packages from, nor do I have the program spoken about in the > second half of the file, even though if I did I would still want to download > the files manually instead of using that program. I looked for > /var/lib/apt/lists, but I have no such thing. I think all I had was > /var/lib, with some stuff in there but no apt. Based on this, how can I > finish setting up dselect? Everything works (or at least seems to) until I > get to that error I mentioned in my original posting. I just need to > download the files onto my Windows partition, transfer them over to the > appropriate place on the Linux partition (I would assume > /dists/stable/main/binary-i386/*, or contrib or non-free), and then have > dselect and apt and dpkg and whatever it is that needs to work properly to > work properly, while using dselect. I imagine it can be done, I'm just not > sure what I need to do. Thank you already for your help.
You need to set up your own packages repository, including Packages files. Dselect and apt need a "Packages" file to tell them about the available packages. For your private package repository, you must generate these yourself using dpkg-scanpackages. It can be found in package dpkg-dev. Finally, set up a deb uri in your sources.list that points to your homebrew Packages files. If you have any problems at it, just post about it to the list. Cheers, Joost
