Debian/Ubuntu dselect question

[Leon Goldstein]

Net Llama! wrote:

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>>>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/
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>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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The power of apt-get is fetching all of the dependencies automatically.  
With dpkg you have to collect dependencies needed by a .deb you want to 
install, then copy all the dependencies and the target .db to a temp 
dir.  You can then CD to the temp dir and run dpkg -i *.  dpkg will sort 
out the dependencies and install them in the correct sequence.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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