On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:10:36PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install it. How do I > tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it > looking at the places in sources.list?
You don't. apt-get primarily handles the list of available packages and their retrieval; the actual manipulation of the packages is handled by dpkg. If you've already downloaded the package yourself, you need to call dpkg directly, like so: dpkg -i /path/to/package.deb -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius
