> Now I want to back-up to my debian-X already downloaded > packages. So I have to > use dselect to remove them and then install again or can I > just specify where the > packages are and let dpkg or similar do the reinstall?
You could probably just do a dpkg -i *.deb in de directory where the downloaded files are. If dpkg complains that it does not want to downgrade (I'n not sure about that) you might have to add a --force-... option. Good luck, Ben Mesman.