circular dependencies in aptitude?

[sktsee]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:07:08 -0700, NoOp wrote:

> On 06/10/2010 02:14 PM, Calcpage wrote: ...
>>> Nevermind... I forgot that I had a network connection when I installed
>>> the debs. I purged and retried without a network connection & see that
>>> the bin file is trying to go out and download the jre file (which is
>>> already in the same folder). Sorry, I'll have to rethink how to
>>> package
>>> them all together for offline install.
>> 
>> Well, how can I force the install of a downloaded deb?
> 
> It might be better, in your case, to go with the standard .bin
> installation at the moment. Drop me a note off list & I'll walk you
> through it.

When I updated my karmic machines with 32-bit sun-java6 lucid packages 
from the Canonical's partner repo, I just stuck the downloaded debs in a 
directory and used dpkg to install:

~/Documents/archives/java$ sudo dpkg -i sun-java6-
bin_6.20dlj-1ubuntu3_i386.deb sun-java6-jre_6.20dlj-1ubuntu3_all.deb
sun-java6-fonts_6.20dlj-1ubuntu3_all.deb sun-java6-
plugin_6.20dlj-1ubuntu3_i386.deb  (all on one line)

This worked for me and required no net access (java-common was already 
installed from karmic's main.)

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sktsee