[wellylug] ubuntu help....

David Antliff david.antliff at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 14:53:22 NZST 2006



On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 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. ;)

Yes, I wasn't sure whether the OP was asking as a typical user or if they 
had encountered something unusual. He did mention he had no Internet 
access but then he mentioned trying to download from a repository...

I wasn't suggesting that was the typical procedure for a typical 
situation. I was suggesting that it was the typical procedure for manually 
installing a .deb file. I guess my thinking was already coloured by the 
first response from Andrej which gave a way to locate the relevant debs.

-- 
David.




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