Quoting Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
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> Can someone help this person?
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> From: ubto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: installing xfree86
> Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 21:41:23 -0700 (PDT)
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> I am new to Debian and am having problems getting
> dselect to install from floppy. All the files I
> downloaded have a ".DEB" file extension. Dselect keeps
> saying that these are not Packages. What am I doing
> wrong?
Using the wrong tool. To install debian packages, just use
dpkg -i filenames...
e.g. dpkg -i /floppy/*DEB
Dselect is an automated tool that requires "knowledge" in the
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form of Packages files - descriptions of packages and location
of their files. You've done that bit yourself already by
putting your selected packages onto a floppy.
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