Debian/Ubuntu dselect question

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Collins Richey wrote:
> I must be missing something. Why can't you just run the following?
>
> apt-get [-y | --yes | --assume-yes] install <the-package-name>
>
> apt-get will download the package (and any dependencies) and install
> without asking you any questions, unless there is something screwy
> about the package or unless the package has configuration options that
> must be handled manually.

Because the systems have no internet access.  There's no place to apt-get 
from.  Now if apt-get allowed me to specify the full network path to a 
package, then it would be fine, but since it can't, its useless to me. 
RPM 1, DEB, 0.

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