On 22-Jun-2002 Dan Jacobson wrote: > The debian package management system is neat but let's say you want to > read the docs and man page of a conflicting package. Then you must > drive the original package off the system to install the new package > just for a look, or otherwise jump thru hoops? Assume I've got the 8 > woody CD's and no net connection. I suppose one just takes the .deb > file and uses dpkg-deb to see the contents...? >
you could extract the files by hand as you suggest > By the way, woody has 8 CD's. Where is the source code for all of > them, back on the website? On the CD's? there will be source cd's available, and of course the ftp/http site. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
