* Kris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030327 15:59 PST]: > I recently downloaded a .deb file how to I actually install it. The deb > package was not a standard deb package and I am so new I don't know how to > setup a standard .deb file. Please help
As Seneca says, to manually install a .deb you can use # dpkg -i foo.deb (as root). This is a pretty uncommon action on Debian machines, though. Downloading and installing manually is the (sucky) way of rpm. Instead, we use apt to retrieve packages automatically. You'll need to configure an /etc/apt/sources.list file with some lines for a debian archive. Then try running dselect or aptitude to browse the available packages, and be able to select packages to be automatically downloaded and installed. It'll even take care of all of the dependencies for you. Also, you'll get better answers if you ask better questions. For starters, on an email list, that means using a decent Subject. Probably if you're using the words "newbie" or "help", you don't have a decent subject. A better subject would have been "how to install a .deb?". Keep it brief, but informative. Even just throwing in keywords freeform will yield you better-than-average subject lines (e.g. ".deb install"). good times, Vineet > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- Microsoft has argued that open source is bad for business, but you have to ask, "Whose business? Theirs, or yours?" --Tim O'Reilly
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