> > > What are you trying to do? > > > > I want to extract all man pages and all docs from all packages. I do > > not want to install the packages. Then make nice search interfaces > > with dwww and recoll. > > > > This is to be used in areas without internet access. I have a local > > repository. > > > > > > I found a solution: > > I made a chroot with debootstrap, minimal install > then I move all *deb from the repository inside a temp directory in > the chroot > > then I can dpkg --unpack *.deb let the packages get unpacked in the > system, without installing > > then I can copy the /usr/share/man etc. directories to the proper > place. > > > Thanks for the ideas! >
No this is no good solution I must install all packages and this seems an impossible task Too much questions I have to answer