On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:38:31AM +0000, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Osamu Aoki saw fit to inform me that: > >I would do quick job as follows using dpkg: > > > >$ cd download/directory/; su > ># dpkg -i *.deb > > > >If you need to install some package in some order, install them first. > > What about dependencies ? For that apt-get is the correct tool. If u are > going to install deb using dpkg -i in a particular order than what is the > difference between rpm and deb :-)
Yap, that's why I said "quick job" :-) It will bomb. sorry! > OK. For installing just 1 package dpkg -i is OK. Oh well, just run above command couple times, it will resolve dependencies. Just a quick and dirty approach to get out of situation. If you can do what you mentioned smoothly, it is definitely better approach ;-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
