How to copy packages...

[Erik Bågfors]

There is no differens between rpm and deb when it comes to this.  The
only differens is how people package it.  Some ppl int the rpm world
like to create a few large rpm's while in the debian world smaller
packages are more common, since dependencies are normally not a
problem due to apt...

But, if you like to install debs manually it's "sudo dpkg -i file.deb".

/Erik


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:29:37 +0100, Andrea Giuliano
<a.giuliano at iccu.sbn.it> wrote:
> Sorry, this is probably a most stupid question!
> 
> I'm not very familiar to Debian packages, so I'm wondering how can one
> copy a package just as I do under Fedora or RPM-based systems.
> 
> An RPM file contains all files needed by an application or whatever, but
> I guess DEB packages are different. At least, I see that a quite big
> application like GCompris has a rather big (several Mbs) RPM file, while
> the corresponding DEB package is just 230K long.
> 
> I guess that if I just copied the latter on a floppy and bring it home,
> I would not get GCompris installed at all.
> 
> Since I have to installa GCompris on a PC without net card, nor modem, I
> cannot use apt-get as usual.
> 
> How else can I do?
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
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