* 'cduck' Chris Grierson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > > i think you misunderstood my intention. i wasn't trying to veil a complaint, > rather ascertain the proper way to mass-install a large list of packages w/o > encountering the problem of not packages install various files/links/dirs > because a package has not yet been installed (even if they are all installed > via the *same*, *single* call to 'dpkg -i *.deb').
"apt-get upgrade" (with "dpkg --[get|set]-selections") is probably safer than "dpkg -i *.deb". One of the things apt was supposed to do is install packages in proper order. It's been a while since I looked closely at Debian packaging system, perhaps dpkg does that too nowadays... (and BTW aren't you supposed to use "-iGREB" instead of just "-i" when you use dpkg that way?) Dima -- "Mirrors and copulation are abominable because they increase the number of entities." -- corollary to Occam's Razor
