Debian/Ubuntu dselect question

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, David Bandel wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 7/16/07, Stuart Biggerstaff <biggers at lindahall.org> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
> dpkg -i  myapp.deb

thanks, this will have to suffice for now.

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

X isn't even running on the systems where I'm doing this.  Plus they're in 
a lab miles away, and I certainly don't have KDE installed.  Anyway, I'm 
not looking for the lazy solution, just one that can be automated.

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