Debian/Ubuntu dselect question

[Net Llama!]

In RPM land, I don't need to download any packages before hand if i just 
want to get them installed.  For example:
rpm -ivh http://foo.com/blah.rpm

will gladly download & install blah.rpm.  Surely this must be possible in 
Debian-land?

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:

> Doesn't dselect just point to packages for another program to install?
> If you are trying to bypass apt-get, wouldn't the script need to
> download the package then install with dpkg?
>
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> 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_i38
> 6.deb
>
> 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?
>
> thanks
>
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