On 16-Apr-2002 GQ Kokidko wrote: > I am a new user and have installed the base system of the stable debian > linux on hdb1 and windows 2000 on hda1. I can boot to linux and windows and > have lilo configured properly but dselect and tasksel aren't able to find > the packages (which are on hda1 in order to install them. Tasksel cant see > them at all (is there a config file or something I can point it too) and > dselect can see them to tell me whats > available. After I go through the million and a half debian packages and > choose what I want to install, when I go to install it either looks at a > different location or doesn't find what it needs (even though I downloaded > everything in the i386 binary directory and fails to install. Thanks for > any help >
the tools do not blindly read all of the deb files in a directory and hand them to you. They require a Packages file which contains the already parsed package info (name, size, description, depends, etc). What you can do is create this file. dpkg-scanpackages will do it for you. Note the file is expected to be gzipped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
