[wellylug] ubuntu help....

[David Antliff]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Brent Wood wrote:
> An Ubuntu 6.06 system with no internet access....
>
> How does the wunnerful Debian package system let me install emacs?

Typical procedure:

0. find .deb file(s) required
1. get them onto the machine somehow
2. use dpkg -i <package.deb> to install

> Looking at the repositories I cain't see no deb files to download at all????

Do you mean on the CDROM or on the Internet? The actual .deb files are 
usually found under the 'pool/' subdir of the repository.

IIRC emacs is on the Ubuntu 6.06 installation CD? If so, and you have the 
CDROM added to your APT sources (the default) then a simple 'apt-get 
install emacs' should work. But I take it you've tried that already?

-- 
David.