Re: Using apt with downloaded deb

1999-07-27 Thread Brad
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 12:05:08PM -0500, Brad wrote: > > Just out of curiousity, what's up with the apostrophies in this message? > > This has been discussed extensively in Slashdot. Evidently, Microsoft > email/web creation programs don't "Do the Righ

Re: Using apt with downloaded deb

1999-07-27 Thread egm2
On 26 Jul, Brad wrote: | On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Tiago Alves Macambira wrote: | | > I've been trying to install debian 2.1 but not I’?m not being very lucky. | | Just out of curiousity, what's up with the apostrophies in this message? I saw somewhere that this is caused by some forms

Re: Using apt with downloaded deb

1999-07-27 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 12:05:08PM -0500, Brad wrote: > Just out of curiousity, what's up with the apostrophies in this message? > This has been discussed extensively in Slashdot. Evidently, Microsoft email/web creation programs don't "Do the Right Thing (TM)" in regards to apostrophes, and fail

Re: Using apt with downloaded deb

1999-07-26 Thread Brad
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Tiago Alves Macambira wrote: > I've been trying to install debian 2.1 but not I?m not being very lucky. Just out of curiousity, what's up with the apostrophies in this message? > Last time I tried, apt/dselect downloaded all the packages needed to > continue with the install

Re: Using apt with downloaded deb

1999-07-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
Copy all of the .debs to /var/cache/apt/archives/. Don't make any subdirectories there, just shove everything in that directory. Then, configure dselect to use the APT method (install the apt package from your archives directory manually with "dpkg -i " if needed). Configure APT to download direct