Debian/Ubuntu dselect question

[Leon Goldstein]

Net Llama! wrote:

>On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, David Bandel wrote:
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>>On 7/16/07, Stuart Biggerstaff <biggers at lindahall.org> wrote:
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>>>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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>>technically, dselect and apt-get are interfaces to dpkg.  But dpkg
>>itself doesn't support downloading the packages, that's done by other
>>helper programs (which dselect and apt-get call). like dpkg-ftp, and
>>others.
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>If that's the case, I'll have to deal with it.  But still, how do i get 
>dpkg to install the damn package without asking me tons of interactive 
>questions?
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dpkg -i  myapp.deb

Or if you're lazy click on the Deb with kpackage when it is associated 
with .deb.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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