[wellylug] ubuntu help....

[Daniel Pittman]

David Antliff <david.antliff at gmail.com> writes:
> 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

That would be the manual procedure, not the typical one, for most
users. ;)

>> 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?

If you have the CD, but it isn't identified as a suitable source, the
trick is to run:

] sudo apt-cdrom add

That will configure the system to use that CD as a source for packages,
so that anything built on apt (including the standard GNOME and KDE
front ends) will install packages (and dependencies) for you.

Regards,
        Daniel
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