Re: non frees on CD

1996-11-08 Thread Pawel T. Jochym
Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > > Thomas Degner writes: > > Tom> However, using 'deselect' i cannot use *different* > Tom> source media during *one* deselect session. I.e. > Tom> i cannot say look for 'buzz' on CD and for 'non-free' > Tom> on my hard drive /zip drive. > > There used to be

Re: non frees on CD

1996-11-08 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> Thomas Degner writes: Tom> However, using 'deselect' i cannot use *different* Tom> source media during *one* deselect session. I.e. Tom> i cannot say look for 'buzz' on CD and for 'non-free' Tom> on my hard drive /zip drive. There used to be a time when you could select a special

Re: non frees on CD

1996-11-07 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
It is possible to install the individual packages you want from non-free "by hand" with dpkg: dpkg -i some_package.deb. Then, you can run dselect to take care of dependency problems and configuration problems if any exist. Luck. Syrus. -- S

non frees on CD

1996-11-07 Thread Thomas Degner
Hi , recently i installed a Debian-Linux from the Sep. 96 Infomagic Dev. Resource on my computer at home. i also like to install the non-free packages, which are NOT included on the CD. I got at least a part of the non-free package via ftp at my office, transfered the files to my home using a