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[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would like to install some non-free and contrib Debian 2.0 packages. I
>have main, non-free and contrib on three different CDs.
>
>I select a package from contrib that depends on another package on
>non-free, dselect does not find that package because it's on the other CD.
The way I've handled this was:
- select the "mounted filesystem" access method in dselect, and quit
dselect.
- make dpkg aware of existence of the packages on all CDs:
do "dpkg --clear-avail" and run "zcat Packages.gz | dpkg --merge-avail"
with the Packages.gz from each CD.
- select the packages in dselect
- let dselect install: the CD with main first, then the non-free, then the
contrib CD. (Packages in main don't depend on ones in contrib or non-free;
packages in non-free don't generally depend on ones in contrib; contrib
ones depend on ones in non-free).
But perhaps someone on debian-user@lists.debian.org can come up with an
easier solution.
HTH,
Ray
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