Thanks, this seems to be very useful, and is not late for me at all. I still
could not install KDE yet...
I cant wait to try it. I have a question though:
>
> deb file:/data/KDE ./
> ^^^^^^
What does this mean?
I saw that in the sources.list file most of the entries has something
appended, like: "optional", "potato" "non-us" etc. Is this "./" supposed to
replace that?
Thanks again: Viktor
Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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