geting deb files to Synaptic Package Manager

[Erik Bågfors]

did you run "apt-get update" to read that Packages.gz-file?

/Erik

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 07:47:17 +0100, Aleš Žiberna
<ales.ziberna at guest.arnes.si> wrote:
> Thanks to everybody for their replies!
> 
> I did already tried to use dpkg -i, however, the dependecies make this very
> problematic. I also tried to set up a local repository as is described in
>      http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html#s-dpkg-scanpackages
> however, it did not work. I have created the Packages.gz file, and added the
> line
>     deb file:/root debs/
>  in the "sources.list".
> 
> However when runing Synaptic Package Manager or apt-get, the packages from
> this repository were not available.
> 
> Thanks again for any further advice and for he ones already given!
> 
> Ales
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Liz Young" <liz at kandew.com>
> To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 9:02 PM
> Subject: Re: geting deb files to Synaptic Package Manager
> 
> Hi Ales,
> 
> On Sat February 5 2005 01:43 am, Aleš Žiberna wrote:
> > I have downloaded a number of packages - .deb files from the net
> > using another computer. I can not connect to the net usnig Ubuntu
> > (modem problems). Is it possible to get this packages to be
> > recognised by Synaptic Package Manager, so when I try to install one
> > of them, all of them will be searched for dependecies.
> 
> For a disconnected system, I use the dpkg command. It also checks for
> (but will not try to download) dependencies.  For example, if you copy
> the debs to the /tmp folder (or wherever), you can install them from
> gnome-terminal with a command like "sudo dpkg -i *.deb".  Or, a single
> package with "sudo dpkg -i <filename>.deb".
> If you're missing a dependency, dpkg will complain and list what is
> needed.  Could be tedious if you're missing a lot of dependent
> packages.
> 
> Or, create a local apt repository, and update from there.  A document
> package called apt-howto is available in Universe.  Section 2.2
> describes how to use apt locally.  Here is a link to the online
> version:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html#s-dpkg-scanpackages
> for other languages:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#apt-howto
> 
> HTH,
> -Liz
> 
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