[plug] apt-get sources.list

[Craig Ringer]

>>>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.

OK, to clarify: I meant that when you "apt-get install blah" or "apt-get 
-d install blah", the package files are downloaded into 
/var/cache/apt/archive before they're installed. So if you're looking to 
manually install a package, that's where to get it from if apt has 
downloaded it. Usually, however, your pkg will be in your usual 
downloads directory (apt put it in it's archives, apt can install it for 
you) so you just run "dpkg -i path/to/package.deb" to install the package.

> you answered above, so I drop files into above directory and bob's ya uncle? 

Not really. There's no real use in dropping stuff into 
/var/cache/apt/archives. I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do? 
If you want to install some separately downloaded packages already on 
your hdd, just dpkg -i pkg [ pkg [ ...] ] . If this is in reference to 
kde3 though, you're better off using apt-get and manually resolving the 
deps on the apt-get command line, as I gave an example of in an earlier msg.

> Also make sure /var has lots of space by the look of things mmmm!!

Definitely. There's no harm in a "rm -f /var/cache/apt/archives/*" 
except that it clears the pkgcache  - but since anything in there is 
usually already installed, I doubt you care. I'm sure there's a cleaner 
way to do this via the apt tools, though.


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