Installing debs from Mepis

[Paul Lemmons]

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re:Installing debs from Mepis
From: Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il>
To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: 05/01/2008 01:15 PM
> Pete wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Pete wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I wouldn't add the repository, you never know what kind of different
>>>> versions or different builds of the same versions of stuff are in there,
>>>>         
>>> and
>>>       
>>>> apt will just blindly install whatever it sees as the "most recent
>>>>         
>>> version"
>>>       
>>>> of stuff, without regard to where it's coming from. Just pull that deb
>>>>         
>>> from
>>>       
>>>> their repository and install it via dpkg.
>>>>
>>>> -p.
>>>>         
>>> How do I do that? I know it sounds a nooby question but I've never had the
>>> occasion to do
>>> something like that before.
>>>       
>> Where did you find the package? I'm having a ton of trouble finding the
>> Mepis repositories.  In any event, find the repository, find the package,
>> download it to your hard drive,  then either:
>>
>> 1. "sudo dpkg -i /path/to/foo.deb" (without the quotes, and replacing the
>> slug filepath with the actual path to the package, probably
>> /home/you/foo.deb)
>>
>> 2. Open it in Gdebi if you have that installed, and click "install."
>>
>> best-
>> p.
>>
>>
>>     
> I found the repository here:
> ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/dists/mepis-7.0/main/binary-i386/
> but on checking I can't find any mention of bibletime :-(
>
> Oh well - next step - compile! [http://www.bibletime.info/software_installation.html] or 
> could I use one of the rpm's and use alien on it? If so, which one - fedora, redhat or suse?
>
> Blessings,
>
> Nigel
>
>   
http://teharris.net/mepis/pool/main/b/bibletime/bibletime_1.6.5_i386.deb

then

sudo dpkg -i /path/to/foo.deb





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