Dpkg itself doesn't need to know the `proper' (long) name of the package, but the frontends to it (dselect, apt) may.
You can use wildcards with dpkg. e.g., "dpkg -i *" will try to install all the packages in the current working directory, "dpkg -i */*.deb" will attempt to install all the .deb files in directories in the cwd. -- On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Owens, Jerry wrote: > I have been able to get past my previous problems with > the base system loading. Now when I reboot the machine and it starts to > load the packages, it doesn't like the fact that they ate stored on a > dos drive which limits the file names to 8 characters. Is there any way > to get around this?
