Op Sat, 02 Apr 2016 19:46:09 +0200 schreef Alan McConnell <a...@his.com>:
Well, I finally got my Jessie installed! I had to pick a different
kernel than then one
suggested, but things finally went through. I was even able to use the
partitions I had
prepared and carefully sized.
My question: how do I install "new" SW? E.g. emacs, and mutt, and
ImageMagick? These
are not found on the one CD I have. I have in addition a thumb drive,
which came with
my purchase from LinuxCollections. I have mounted it and find that it
is chock full
of .deb files. I suppose there is some way of 'manually' copying a
particular .deb
to my disk and then installing it. But I am afraid of getting stuck in
"dependency
hell". Does someone here also have the same CD + thumb drive situation.
TIA,
Alan
I think it is possible to use the thumb drive as a local repo. Does the
drive have a directory with the following sub-directories?
dists, pool, indices and doc
Insert and mount the drive and take a note of the location. For example
/media/USER_NAME/usb_drive
Add a line in /etc/apt/sources.list
deb file:/media/USER_NAME/usb_drive/dir_which_have_the_sub_dirs jessie
main contrib non-free
Tell apt you have new packages as root with:
apt-get update
Install the software you want with:
apt-get install emacs
success,
Floris
