Debian/Ubuntu dselect question

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, C M Reinehr wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007 18:52, Net Llama! wrote:
>> 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_i38
>>>> 6.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.
>
> 	You don't need access to the internet at large to use apt-get. Just edit
> your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to a mounted cd-rom or to a
> directory containing .deb files as your source. The source can be on your
> local machine or any other suitable system on the private network.
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/

This just adds another layer of complexity.  Now i'd need to start 
automating the addition of the local source in sources.list, plus I'd 
still need to get the packages onto the box somehow.

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