> Due to a somewhat shaky net connection I decided > to download the debs for xfree 4 (from > http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha) to my local machine. > I'm trying to add the dirs where they reside to my > sources.list but apt complains about malformed lines. > This is what I did: > > deb file:/home/henrik/debs/xf402_potato/i386/ > deb file:/home/henrik/debs/xf402_potato/all/ > > What am I doing wrong?
Once you have the packages download, just use "dpkg" to install them. dpkg --install packagename1 packagename2 It *will* keep your installed packages database up to date too. Regards Hall
