Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-06 Thread Kent West
Hal Vaughan wrote: Actually, I should have asked this with the question. The game is Enigma, and I found the binaries on mirrors, but the game is listed on the Debian website. It doesn't show up when I apt-cache search enigma. Is that because I'm using stable and it's in testing or unstable

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 06 February 2003 04:10 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:28:26AM -0600, Steve Wollkind wrote: > > interacts with apt-get later (I doubt you can uninstall packages > > installed this way with apt-get remove...I would imageine apt is > > simply unaware of them, but some

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-06 Thread Tom Verbreyt
6.02.2003 16:55 Hal Vaughan: >>> How can I install a .deb file that I've downloaded with my >>> browser? >> >> Apt-get acts as a frontend to dpkg, downloading and installing >> packages in the right order. You can call dpkg directly (dpkg -i) >> to instll your own packages; apt-get will still be a

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:06 am, Svein Ove Aas wrote: > torsdag 6. februar 2003, 07:08, skrev Hal Vaughan: > > 1) How can I specify the source site to use to retreive a specific > > package? (In this case, I added download.kde.org with all the info to > > point to the KDE 3.1 packages, but a

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 06 February 2003 04:09 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:08:52AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > 1) How can I specify the source site to use to retreive a specific > > package? (In this case, I added download.kde.org with all the info to > > point to the KDE 3.1 package

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:28:26AM -0600, Steve Wollkind wrote: > interacts with apt-get later (I doubt you can uninstall packages > installed this way with apt-get remove...I would imageine apt is > simply unaware of them, but someone who knows more about this should > comment on it). Yes, you ca

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:08:52AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > 1) How can I specify the source site to use to retreive a specific package? > (In this case, I added download.kde.org with all the info to point to the KDE > 3.1 packages, but apt doesn't seem to see anything above KDE 2.2, even afte

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-05 Thread Svein Ove Aas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 torsdag 6. februar 2003, 07:08, skrev Hal Vaughan: > I know this should be very simple and easy to find, but I'm having trouble > answering these two questions. I've been through the apt-get man page a > few times. Since I'm trying to do something on

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-05 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030206 15:22]: > I know this should be very simple and easy to find, but I'm having trouble > answering these two questions. I've been through the apt-get man page a few > times. Since I'm trying to do something on a "one-time-only" basis, this > shouldn

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Wollkind
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:08:52AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > 2) How can I install a .deb file that I've downloaded with my browser? (I > downloaded a game that was a .deb file into my home directory. I searched > the /var dir tree and found .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives, so I > copie

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-05 Thread Kent West
Hal Vaughan wrote: I know this should be very simple and easy to find, but I'm having trouble answering these two questions. I've been through the apt-get man page a few times. Since I'm trying to do something on a "one-time-only" basis, this shouldn't be a config problem -- I'd expect it to