On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:20:21PM +0000, Viktor Lakics wrote: > I am new to Debian. Just installed potato, and want to put KDE2.1. I > have all the KDE deb packages from kde.debian.net in a directory > /data/KDE. > > How should I put this path into my /etc/apt/sources.list for > installing KDE from there (and not directly from the internet)? > > I want to do "apt-get install kdebase task-kde" to do this... > > Thanks in advance. -- Viktor > Apparently you have root, so... don't mess with apt if you already have them downloaded, and don't intend to setup a private mirror.
Simple answer, use dpkg -i $PATH_TO_DEBS/$DEB_NAME_IN_FULL HTH Gordon Sadler
