Re: [Synaptic-devel] import

[Richard Bos]

Op donderdag 18 maart 2004 21:42, schreef Michael Vogt:
> Well, to get this "right", we need support from apt to do this. Also
> it is easy to just call "dpkg -i program.deb" this leads to problems
> if the deb needs dependencies that are not already installed.
>
> As apt is responsible to do dependency resolution and synaptic makes
> use of apt for this, we need support for local installs in apt. See
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=47379
> for details. Once we have it in apt we'll immediately add it :)

apt-rpm supports this already:

linux:/home/richard/ # apt install pwlib-plugins-alsa-1.6.3-3.i586.rpm 
pwlib-plugins-v4l-1.6.3-3.i586.rpm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selecting pwlib-plugins-alsa for 'pwlib-plugins-alsa-1.6.3-3.i586.rpm'
Selecting pwlib-plugins-v4l for 'pwlib-plugins-v4l-1.6.3-3.i586.rpm'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  pwlib-plugins-alsa pwlib-plugins-v4l
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/59.0kB of archives.
After unpacking 135kB of additional disk space will be used.
Checking GPG signatures...
Committing changes...
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:pwlib-plugins-v4l      ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:pwlib-plugins-alsa     ########################################### [100%]
Done.


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Richard Bos
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