Gutsy upgrade question: Manually downloading some packages using wget

[Hugo Heden]

On 10/29/07, Wulfy <wulfmann at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Hugo Heden wrote:
> > So obviously there is an internal database that apt-get/update-manager
> > uses, and I would want to *manually* add the manually downloaded
> > deb-files to that database..
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Hugo Heden
> The only thing I can think of which might work (though others may have
> more knowledge than I do) is when you've moved the debs to the archive, run:
>
> sudo dpkg -i *.deb
>
> which will install all the debs.  I'm not sure that would work...  if
> there were dependency problems (old debs?) in there, it might bomb out
> and leave you in a more difficult state than you're in now.  :@(
>

Thanks again Wulfmann,

Yeah, I tried that, but since those deb-files are "from Gutsy" and my
current install is Feisty, dpkg refuses to install the packages due to
conflicting and missing dependencies.

(The system does not seem to be more borked now than before, so no
worries there :-) )

> Anyone else got any suggestions?
>