Debian/Ubuntu dselect question

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, David Bandel wrote:
> On 7/16/07, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>> I'm trying to automate the installation of a .deb package over the network
>> (without using apt-get).  The following command mostly works:
>> dselect install
>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/tcsh/tcsh_6.14.00-7_i386.deb
>>
>
> The above command shouldn't work at all, at least no the way you
> expect.  In fact, I suspect you're not installing tcsh at all unless
> it happens to be in your already selected packages.

Ubuntu-7.x doesn't ship with tcsh, so that command has to be working, as I 
have tcsh only after running that command.

>
>> except that I keep getting prompted with the following question:
>>
>> Do you want to erase any previously downloaded .deb files? [Y/n]
>>
>> How can I supress that question so that it doesn't require human
>> intervention?
>
> First configure your /etc/apt-get/sources.list to include:
> deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu universe
>
> Then: apt-get update
> Finally:  apt-get install tcsh
>
> You won't be prompted to delete any files (they will remain on your system).

Thanks, but that won't help me.  I need to do this without apt-get, as the 
systems in question are on a private subnet with no internet access.  I 
just want to point dpkg to the on-network deb package and have it get 
installed.  Is that not possible?  Its dead easy with RPM based distros.

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