At 07:52 PM 1/18/2001 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Until newbie can connect to net under linux, he >is stuck with having to use win3.1 machine to download >.deb's from debian.org. But then, when puts floppy >with .deb in linux machine, apt-get can't seem to >understand simple directions. Migrate to floppy, >type apt-get install filename.deb and NOTHING >happens. There must be some way to do something >this simple... TIA dave don't use apt
#dpkg -i foo.deb will do it nicely (looks a lot like RPM to be honest)
