On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 07:06:12PM +0100, I.J.W. Wever wrote: > I've recently installed Debian2.2r5 from a mounted file system > (my windows disk): /mnt/hda5/dl/Linux/dists > > In that directory I have directories /stable and /potato, which are identical > and both contain all available binaries for a 386 system (for some reason > the install program seemed to need this). I've been playing around with > dselect somewhat, always using that location as source. > > I downloaded the .debs for Kernel2.4.18, glibc2.2.5, and XFree4.1.0 and > want to install these.
I strongly, strongly recommend that you don't try to install those versions of glibc and xfree86 without upgrading wholesale to woody. (There are packages of xfree86 backported to potato at http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/, which may be more suitable.) > Now my question: Where is the best place to put them, The easiest thing to do is to use an access method (like apt or dpkg-ftp) that downloads them automatically from the net. If you can't do that, put them in a separate directory on some local filesystem with a similar structure to the archive you've already got - dists/local/main/binary-i386/..., say, and use dpkg-scanpackages to create a Packages file for them. This is more difficult though. > how can I easily add them to the dselect 'source path' Use the [A]ccess menu entry in dselect. I can't remember if you can use multiple archives with the mounted method, though. > and do these package have inherent dependencies that ensure me that > the previous kernel, glibc and Xfree are uninstalled? For the kernel, you don't need to worry about that, as you can have multiple kernels installed. For glibc, the package name is the same and you can't have two different versions of the same package installed (but, as I said, I recommend against upgrading potato to glibc 2.2.5). The xfree86 packages have conflicts that should force out packages that have become obsolete with XFree86 4, but check /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/README.Debian-upgrade.gz after the installation to make sure. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
