In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and > sometimes I download a package over more than one dialup session, save it > in a directory and install it with dpkg. > > I have tried apt, but could not get it to install a package from a > directory on my hard disk - which is frustrating. It seems to me apt is > looking for the same directory structure that the debian mirrors have and > I am not going to mirror the whole structure on my hard disk.
apt will assume a Debian archive structure unless you end your sources.list line with a directory separater. For example, if your deb files are in /home/jhspies/debian/mydebs/*, you would need to following line. deb file:/home/jhspies/debian mydebs/ HTH, -Mitch
