Fwd: Repositories
Matthew Kuiken
matt.kuiken at verizon.net
Wed Mar 8 08:33:49 UTC 2006
Bill Cairns wrote:
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> I sent this a two weeks ago and received no reply. I am trying again to see if anyone can help me.
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> I have two ubuntu machines - one has no network connection and the other has a slow connection. I do, however, have access to a fast network connection on a Windows machine.
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> I would like to be able to use Synaptic - or equivalent - to add applications. How can I persuade Synaptic to let me provide the necessary .deb files rather than insisting on getting them from the Internet?
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> The WIKI has what looks like an excellent solution using dpkg-scanpackages to create a file for apt-get. But dpkg-scanpackages is not in the standard repository so I am in a catch 22 situation with that suggestion.
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> Would appreciate help,
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> Bill
Just to bring up old history... Since I did not see it in any replies
to this thread, dpkg-scanpackages is in the dpkg-dev package.
dpkg-dev is on the install CD. You should be able to install it via
synaptic.
-Matt
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