Quoting Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote: > > You'll be left with a package called /kernel-image-2.3.41_foo.1_i386.deb > > in the directory above you (i.e. in ..) which you can then install > > like any .deb file. > > I follow up to that point but my Windows brain does not grok "lnstall like any > .deb file" How is that?
dpkg -i whichever.deb [whatever.deb ...] installs those packages. (I put two packages because some people forget that dpkg can handle multiple files and get stumped by circular dependencies.) This is the only part of the process that you need to be root to do. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
