Thank You!
(PS: It's not too OT as I don't want to try upgrading everything
that works to 'testing')
Jeff Coppock wrote:
> Tom Allison, 2001-Sep-04 19:02 -0400:
>
>>I was looking for something maybe like this:
>>dpkg -i ftp.debian.org./lots of path stuff/filename.deb
>>But it doesn't work that way, does it?
>>
>
> What you want is:
>
> # apt-get -d install packagename
>
> This will only download the package and store it in
> /var/cache/apt/archives as a .deb file
>
> Now you can install it from this directory:
>
> # cd /var/cache/apt/archives
> # dpkg -i packagename.deb
>
> jc
>
>
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