[plug] apt-get sources.list

[Craig Ringer]

> this seems to initiate the packages file but ignores release.

Actually, there are no Release files in the kde3 debian tree on 
ftp.iinet.net.au

As a result, if you then try to "apt-get install kde3" you'll get a huge 
list of dependency warnings. There is no way AFAIK to set up 
/etc/apt/preferences to prioritize KDE3 without a Release file. In other 
words, the KDE archive is somewhat broken. I managed to install it by 
semi-manually resolving the deps

apt-get install kdelibs4 kdebase (blah, blah blah) libc6/unstable 
libvorbis0/unstable (blah blah blah)

but you don't want to do that. Among other things its not easy to remove 
  KDE 3 later if you do it that way. I'd reccomend just waiting for 
packages to arrive in sid or sarge - KDE3 just didn't impress me all 
that much.

> Also how do we get a downloaded deb package installed from local machine, in 
> slack I just point to file and installpkg or point pkgtool to it. 

dpkg -i <pkg>

apt downloads packages into /var/cache/apt/archive by default.

> Is this same with apt-get or is there another install package to do this.?

wha? sorry, I'm not getting you here.

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