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
>
> --
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