Re: How to get dependencies also ...

2000-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
Dinesh Nadarajah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Also, how do I browse through the contents of a *.deb >package? (dpkg -I *.deb ???). 'dpkg -I' displays "control" information about the package; 'dpkg -c' lists the files it contains. If you want anything more detailed than that, 'dpkg --fsys-tarfile pa

RE: How to get dependencies also ...

2000-06-29 Thread Sven Richter
Just use apt-setup an select a ftp-server as a source than dselect loads first every package down which is needed see ya Sven \\\ (..) ---oo0-()-0oo--- www.svenrichter.de -- ICQ: 61484034 E-Mail: Sven Richter <[EMAIL PRO

Re: How to get dependencies also ...

2000-06-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:01:41 PDT, Dinesh Nadarajah writes: >I want to install a software package but I don't want >to download each of it's dependencies and install them >one by one. For e.g. if I wanted to install fvwm2, >then is there a command like: > >apt-get -install fvwm2 > >which will downlo