How to copy packages...

[Andrea Giuliano]

OK, now that's clear, sorry for the very low level of my question.

What was confusing me is exactly the size of packages: RPMs are often 
quite large, but fewer, while DEBs are usually smaller, but more 
numerous. Now I know why.

Many thanks!

Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 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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> 

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