I'm just a hack, so I don't know the 'correct' way but I do this. But I'd
do:

dpkg --install /path/to/deb/files/*.deb
    or
dpkg --install cups.deb other-cups-file1.deb other-cups-file2.deb

der.hans would probably know a much more elegant approach. Also, if you get
dependency problems, just use wget to grab those files too.

Tony Wasson
wasson@ivol.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "jtannenba" <jtannenba@yahoo.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Gentoo rocks -> Debian vs. Gentoo


> Ok,
> Now for an easy one....you have xxxx.deb packages in
> a directory.  What is the correct can you get dpkg
> to go right to the directory, or what is the correct
> path syntax to get apt-get to see it?  I tried doing
> this without going to 'testing' to get the new cups
> software...I had so much trouble and got tired of
> going
> back and forth to the man pages, I just did and
> upgrade
> to 'testing'.
>
> Joe
> --- "der.hans" <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
> > Am 21. Apr, 2002 schwätzte bob smith so:
> >
> > > I'd have to disagree about it being for advanced
> > users
> > > only.
> > >
> > > I switched to gentoo because I wasn't thrilled
> > with
> > > the other package management systems. I liked apt
> > ok,
> > > but I still kind of felt swamped by having to use
> > > dpkg, apt-get, apt-search, dselect, etc. Now if I
> > want
> > > something I can "emerge -s <foo>" and if I find it
> > > "emerge <foo>"...it's that easy. Other than that
> > it's
> > > pretty much the same :).
> >
> > The problem with the different tools in debian (
> > apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg,
> > dpkg-reconfigure, dselect, etc. )[0] is that they
> > work too well. We're
> > supposed to have front ends, e.g. aptitude[1]. The
> > apt tools aren't supposed
> > to be used by humans, only by programs. We use them,
> > though, because with
> > the dependency checking done in the background
> > they're great.
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
> >
> > [0] 'apt-get update', 'apt-get -u dist-upgrade',
> > 'apt-get install <package>' and
> > 'apt-search <string>' are all you normally need, but
> > 'apt-get -f install',
> > 'dpkg-reconfigure <package>', 'dpkg --configure -a'
> > and others can be needed
> > sometimes.
> >
> > [1] $ apt-cache search apt | grep -i frontend | grep
> > -i apt
> > aptitude - curses-based apt frontend
> > synaptic - GUI-frontend for APT
> >
> > --
> > #  https://www.LuftHans.com/
> > #  C'est la Net - der.hans
> >
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