Ron Rademaker wrote: > > I don't thinthat'll work because the directory structure isn't correct, on > a mirror you got > /dists/<distro>/[main|contrib|non-free]/binary-i386/[base|admin|net|etc]/package.deb > you don't have that with your downloaded packages, the best thing you can > do is go to the downloaded .deb and do dpkg -i *.deb, you might need to > add some force options, like the one to avoid version conflicts / > dependencies, perl and libc6 might give problems, YOU SHOULD ONLY USE > THOSE FORCES TO UPGRADE THOSE 2!! > But I must agree with you that there should be some kind of way to easily > downgrade using .debs on your system and apt-get, perhaps a feature that > should be added to apt-get.... who maintains the package???
here's how i find the package maintainers: # dpkg -s apt Package: apt Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 1400 Maintainer: APT Development Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.3.18 Replaces: deity, libapt-pkg-doc (<< 0.3.7), libapt-pkg-dev (<< 0.3.7) Provides: libapt-pkg2.7 Depends: libc6, libc6 (>= 2.1), libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libstdc++2.10 Suggests: dpkg-dev Conflicts: deity Description: Advanced front-end for dpkg This is Debian's next generation front-end for the dpkg package manager. It provides the apt-get utility and APT dselect method that provides a simpler, safer way to install and upgrade packages. . APT features complete installation ordering, multiple source capability and several other unique features, see the Users Guide in /usr/doc/apt/guide.txt.gz i look forward to the details that resolve your main question...
