debian help

[Brad Cox]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 11:12:19PM -0800, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 07:44:57PM -0800, E Frank Ball wrote:
> > I have a couple of .deb packages I got off some web pages.  When I do
> > "apt-get install package-name.deb" it says it can't find the file.  How
> > do I load a local package?  The man page isn't much help.
> 
> dpkg --install package-name.deb

For the lazy:
dpkg -i n.deb

> > While I'm at it I need a good reference for how to use apt-get.
> > Equivalent commands to rpm -q, rpm -ql, rpm -qf, etc.
> 
> dpkg --status
dpkg -s
> dpkg --get-selections
damn long options
> dpkg --listfiles
dpkg -L
> dpkg --search
dpkg -S
> dpkg --info
dpkg -I

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