On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Nigel Ridley <<a href="mailto:nigel@rmk.co.il">nigel@rmk.co.il</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Pete wrote:<br>
> I wouldn't add the repository, you never know what kind of different<br>
> versions or different builds of the same versions of stuff are in there, and<br>
> apt will just blindly install whatever it sees as the "most recent version"<br>
> of stuff, without regard to where it's coming from. Just pull that deb from<br>
> their repository and install it via dpkg.<br>
><br>
> -p.<br>
<br>
</div>How do I do that? I know it sounds a nooby question but I've never had the occasion to do<br>
something like that before.</blockquote><div><br>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:<br>
<br>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)<br><br>2. Open it in Gdebi if you have that installed, and click "install."<br>
<br>best-<br>p.<br></div></div>