Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-13 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 01:27:49PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:45:04AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 12/06/11 06:22, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > How can I install multiple debs residing in a directory on my hard > > > drive? > > > Unless I missed it, running

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-13 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 01:06:06PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: .snip > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html > man dpkg > dpkg --help > > Easy to miss given that much of the introductory documentation focuses > on high-level package management tool

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/06/11 06:27, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:45:04AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 12/06/11 06:22, Robert Holtzman wrote: >>> How can I install multiple debs residing in a directory on my hard drive? >>> Unless I missed it, running a search, the Debian Reference man

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:24:37PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 12 Jun 2011 at 13:27:49 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > That did the trick. Thanks. BTW, where in the docs does it mention this > > situation and point to dpkg? I would love to know where I missed it. > > Debian Reference. Sectio

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Jun 2011 at 13:27:49 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > That did the trick. Thanks. BTW, where in the docs does it mention this > situation and point to dpkg? I would love to know where I missed it. Debian Reference. Section 2.4.1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-12 Thread Wayne Topa
On 06/12/2011 04:27 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:45:04AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 12/06/11 06:22, Robert Holtzman wrote: How can I install multiple debs residing in a directory on my hard drive? Unless I missed it, running a search, the Debian Reference manual a

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:45:04AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 12/06/11 06:22, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > How can I install multiple debs residing in a directory on my hard drive? > > Unless I missed it, running a search, the Debian Reference manual and the > > Maintainers Guide shows noth

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-11 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:22:50 -0700 Robert Holtzman wrote: > How can I install multiple debs residing in a directory on my hard drive? > Unless I missed it, running a search, the Debian Reference manual and the > Maintainers Guide shows nothing applicable. Any pointers appreciated. > as ro

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:22:50 -0700 Robert Holtzman wrote: Hello Robert, > How can I install multiple debs residing in a directory on my hard > drive? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto will show you how. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/06/11 06:22, Robert Holtzman wrote: > How can I install multiple debs residing in a directory on my hard drive? > Unless I missed it, running a search, the Debian Reference manual and the > Maintainers Guide shows nothing applicable. Any pointers appreciated. > # dpkg -i /path/to/harddriv

installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
How can I install multiple debs residing in a directory on my hard drive? Unless I missed it, running a search, the Debian Reference manual and the Maintainers Guide shows nothing applicable. Any pointers appreciated. -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of

Re: installing .debs in $HOME

2009-06-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-06-23 03:18 +0200, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Wouldn't it be neat if users without root privileges could just > install packages anyway on their account. They can extract them using "dpkg-deb -x", but the maintainer scripts will not be run then. There is no guarantee that these scripts

installing .debs in $HOME

2009-06-22 Thread jidanni
Wouldn't it be neat if users without root privileges could just install packages anyway on their account. Maybe they could make an entire file tree, (including /home/nurdsome/home/nurdsome/ ?). The problem I'm trying to solve is e.g., Dreamhost, where there are 1000 debs installed, but root is no

Re: Post-inst perl error installing .debs

2001-09-06 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:44:58PM +0200, Firebeam al mare uttered: > === BEGIN CUT HERE === > Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine return at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "}" > Compilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 3. > ...propagated at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/bas

Post-inst perl error installing .debs

2001-09-05 Thread Firebeam al mare
Hi everybody. I've got a problem while attempting to install some .debs. This is the output I get from dpkg (regarding ifupdown, but it's the same for other packages as well): === BEGIN CUT HERE === Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "

Re: installing debs

2000-05-09 Thread w trillich
Steve Zinck wrote: > I just ran apacheconfig for the first time since installation. It > didn't remove my setenvif_module, although it did comment out the php > modules and a bunch of others, consequently disabling a few of my web > sites. It does ask you if you want to save the configuration tho

Re: installing debs

2000-05-09 Thread Steve Zinck
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 01:37:21PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Steve" == Steve Zinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Steve> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:25:43PM -0400, Chris Mason > Steve> wrote: > >> I want to install apache/PHP3/mysql. I've done it by compiling > >> the source

Re: installing debs

2000-05-09 Thread Brian May
> "Steve" == Steve Zinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:25:43PM -0400, Chris Mason Steve> wrote: >> I want to install apache/PHP3/mysql. I've done it by compiling >> the source files on another machine, but I like the .deb >> packages method,

Re: installing debs

2000-05-09 Thread Steve Zinck
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:25:43PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > I want to install apache/PHP3/mysql. I've done it by compiling the source > files on another machine, but I like the .deb packages method, however, I > don't know how to install apache with options from a .deb. In other words, > how do

installing debs

2000-05-09 Thread Chris Mason
I want to install apache/PHP3/mysql. I've done it by compiling the source files on another machine, but I like the .deb packages method, however, I don't know how to install apache with options from a .deb. In other words, how do I specify mod-php, mod_mysql, etc? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley,