On Sunday 01 April 2001 07:20, 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
Yes, you can put it in your /etc/apt/sources.list. (I do it all the time!) But the format would be something like this: deb file:/data/KDE ./ First, HOWEVER, you have to create the magic Packages (or Packages.gz) file. The program to do this is dpkg-scanpackages (provided by the package "dpkg-dev"). If I understand your file system correctly, the first steps would be: debian:/$ cd /data/KDE debian:/data/KDE$ dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages This creates a Packages file out of all the .deb's located below the directory /data/KDE. (The "/dev/null" is to just disable some abstruse dpkg-scanpackages option.) Then you add the line I mentioned above to your sources.list. ----EXCERPT /etc/apt/sources.list---- # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. deb file:/data/KDE ./ <SNIP, SNIP> ----END EXCERPT---- To make this setup work properly, you probably have to put this line before any "deb http://"; or "deb ftp://"; sources. The you run: debian:/$ apt-get update After this you can presumably (if you have really downloaded all of Ivan's stuff), run: debian:/$ apt-get install task-kde kdebase That's all there is to it.
