Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I needed to install libncurses5-dev, but it wasn't on the CD and my NIC >still isn't working in Linux. (It's a NetGear FA311 if anyone has >experience with it.) I switched into Win98, downloaded it, and went back >into Linux. I copied the .deb file into /root/ and ran > >dpkg -A libncurses5-dev-yadayada.deb > >It said the information for package libncurses5-dev had been read from the >file. Then I did a > >apt-get install libncurses5-dev > >It said the package couldn't be found.
Packages need to be in "aptable repositories", with the appropriate Packages.gz files and so on (see dpkg-scanpackages(8)) before 'apt-get install' can use them. However, you can just use dpkg directly: 'dpkg -i libncurses5-dev_yadayada.deb'. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
