How to find hoary compatible packages

[Shivakumar GN]

Hi,

--- Henrik Eismark <h.eismark at privat.dk> wrote:
> Tirsdag den 13. september 2005 10:25 skrev
> >
> > The problem I have is that the
> > ubuntu machine is not connected to the internet
> and I
> > need to manually download the packages and put it
> onto
> > the system.
> >
> > But I can still use the package manager I suppose.
> > Will give it a try.
> >
> > thanks
> > Shiv
> >
> 
> Couldn't you somehow add the cd to
> /etc/apt/sources.list?
> 

But there is no CD! I need to try out many different
softwares which are not in a particular CD.
Can I have a local directory where all deb packages
are stored and include this directory in
/etc/apt/sources.list as one of the sources. If so how
would the format be.

All examples of synaptic/apt that I have seen talk
about a system connected to the net. This is one
feature that I found restrictive in ubuntu. It expects
everyone to be connected to net. Or is there a
workaround that I am missing.

regards
Shiv


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