Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question

From	Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question
Date	2016-04-03 10:20 +0200
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Op Sat, 02 Apr 2016 19:46:09 +0200 schreef Alan McConnell <alan@his.com>:

> Well, I finally got my Jessie installed!  I had to pick a different  
> kernel than then one
> suggested, but things finally went through.  I was even able to use the  
> partitions I had
> prepared and carefully sized.
>
> My question:  how do I install "new" SW?  E.g. emacs, and mutt, and  
> ImageMagick?  These
> are not found on the one CD I have.  I have in addition a thumb drive,  
> which came with
> my purchase from LinuxCollections.  I have mounted it and find that it  
> is chock full
> of .deb files.  I suppose there is some way of 'manually' copying a  
> particular .deb
> to my disk and then installing it.  But I am afraid of getting stuck in  
> "dependency
> hell".  Does someone here also have the same CD + thumb drive situation.
>
> TIA,
>
> Alan
>

I think it is possible to use the thumb drive as a local repo. Does the  
drive have a directory with the following sub-directories?
dists, pool, indices and doc

Insert and mount the drive and take a note of the location. For example  
/media/USER_NAME/usb_drive
Add a line in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb file:/media/USER_NAME/usb_drive/dir_which_have_the_sub_dirs jessie  
main contrib non-free

Tell apt you have new packages as root with:
apt-get update

Install the software you want with:
apt-get install emacs

success,

Floris

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Blank screen on tty (console) Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-04-01 18:40 +0200
  Re: Blank screen on tty (console) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-04-01 19:40 +0200
    OT: GRUB kernel options (Was: Blank screen on tty (console)) Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-02 05:40 +0200
  Re: Blank screen on tty (console) (revised) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-04-02 05:50 +0200
    Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-04-02 19:50 +0200
      Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-02 21:20 +0200
        Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-04-02 22:50 +0200
          Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-03 00:50 +0200
          Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-04 21:20 +0200
            Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-04-04 23:00 +0200
              Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 02:30 +0200
              Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-05 12:00 +0200
                Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-04-05 13:30 +0200
                Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-06 15:50 +0200
                Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-04-05 16:00 +0200
      Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-04-03 10:20 +0200
        Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-03 11:00 +0200
          Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-04-03 11:10 +0200
            Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-03 12:30 +0200
          Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-04-03 21:30 +0200
            Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 04:30 +0200
              Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-04-04 06:00 +0200
              Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-04-04 06:00 +0200
              Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2016-04-04 07:40 +0200
              Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-04-04 09:20 +0200
          Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-04 17:20 +0200

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