On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:32:38AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Andreas Hetzmannseder quotation: > > > > dpkg -i blah.deb > > > [...] > > > > If you decided to uninstall 'blah.deb', wouldn't you run into trouble? > > > > One may create a 'Packages' file for some extra deb-package: > > > > localhost:~# cd /usr/local > > localhost:/usr/local# mkdir debs > > localhost:/usr/local# cd debs > > localhost:/usr/local/debs# mkdir package_name > > localhost:/usr/local/debs# cp path/to/debfile package_name > > localhost:/usr/local/debs# dpkg-scanpackages package_name\ > > some_empty_override_file\ > > debs/ > Packages > > > > Additional entry in /etc/apt/sources.list: > > > > deb file:/usr/local debs/ > > > > This way installing or uninstalling may be more properly achieved. > > > > At least I have been doing it this way, and it has been working fine. > > Any comments? > > Just one: it's completely unnecessary. dpkg can uninstall any > currently-installed package. It has no need, and probably completely > ignores, the original .deb file. > > [...]
Thanks, Craig, I will try out dpkg -i right now... Andreas.
