On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:12:51PM +0200, Marc Brünink wrote: > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:12:51 +0200 > From: Marc Brünink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: apt-get install without internet connection > > > On Montag, Okt 17, 2005, at 13:25 Europe/Berlin, Marc Brünink wrote: > > >I've a pretty trivial question: > >I've a computer without any internet access. But I want to install a > >specific package which is not included on my debian CDs. So I used > >"apt-get clean" > > and "apt-get -d install <packagename>" to get the packages on a > >machine with internet access. Thereafter I copied /var/cache/apt to > >the first machine and tryed to "apt-get install" the package. This > >didn't work. "apt-cache" cannot find the package, too. What's wrong? > > > If I had have a brain I had read the APT Howto Section 2.2: > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html#s-dpkg- > scanpackages > > Strangely the machine without internet access didn't have > dpkg-scanpackes.
You have to install dpkg-dev package to have dpkg-scanpackages command. Best wishes -- Alexei Chetroi Smile... Tomorrow will be worse. (c) Murphy's Law -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
