Am 15. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Joost Kooij so: > Before ubiquitous net access became a commodity, debian worked just fine. > Why else do you think that there still is a dpkg-split utility in the dpkg > package?
Never even heard of it before :). Cool feature, though. > Download the Packages file, ungzip it, and use the correct interface: > > dpkg --update-avail Packages OK, this is the knowledge we were missing. Now the question is: Is Tommy still out there? Tommy, here's what it looks like you need to do ( wait to see if Joost or somebody else confirms my questionable presumptions ). Download the Packages files from the sources you want. Boot into Debian. Either use "dpkg --update-avail /path/to/packages/Packages", then deselect to decide what packages you want. Inside dselect you can choose to install packages. Before they can be installed you'll need to download the appropriate debs. Joost, at the point they've been dselected he can run "dpkg -l | grep ^in" to get a list of packages to download. Is there a better way? He then puts the debs in /var/cache/apt/archives/? Install via "apt-get dselect-upgrade"? Then again, maybe we should just get Tommy's networking working :). ciao, der.hans PS: Joost, thanks for all the info. I've learned quite a bit. -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # It's up to the reader to make the book interesting. # An author has only the opportunity to make it uninteresting. - der.hans
