Gutsy upgrade question: Manually downloading some packages using wget

[Derek Broughton]

Hugo Heden wrote:

> 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.

Then you can't install them, period.

Your best bet is to download the _source_ debs from gutsy, and recompile
them on your system - but there's no guarantee they'll compile, either.
-- 
derek