[GLLUG] RE: Ubuntu Packages -- WAS: Digital Video Cameras & Linux

[Chris Chan]

You can install a deb by command line.

sudo dpkg -i foo.deb

man dpkg

On 1/18/08, Nathan Hartley <nathan at ilothlorien.com> wrote:
> > Is there some way to use another PC (e.g. the one at a relative's house
> with
> DSL) to just download an Ubuntu package (i.e. without installing) and then
> transfer that to the Ubuntu PC for installation?
>
> Yes
>
> Here is Ubuntu's version of the Debian link you mentioned:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/devel/build-essential
>
> You can download the package by selecting the appropriate architecture near
> the bottom.
>
> I was hoping this page would tell me for sure, but you are likely to find
> that build-essential, or at least the missing package you need, is on the
> Ubuntu CD. Try that apt-get command and see what happens, it may ask for the
> CD rather than try to connect to the Internet.
>
> I have only used Synaptic (the apt-get gui) to install stray packages and
> here at work (a Microsoft wasteland) am unable to describe exactly how to do
> it. Best I can remember there is an option under the first menu item, File
> --> Install Package maybe.
>
> As for the command line way, best I can say is...
>
> man apt-get
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marr [mailto:marr at copper.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 4:04 PM
> To: Nathan Hartley
> Cc: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> Subject: Ubuntu Packages -- WAS: Digital Video Cameras & Linux
>
> On Friday 18 January 2008 3:26pm, Nathan Hartley wrote:
> > >Tried to compile dvgrab-3.1 (latest).
> > >Ubuntu reports this on './configure' step:
> > >   configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> > > .... seems like Ubuntu 7.10 "out of the box" is not really ready
> > > for any compilation...
> >
> > From http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Gutsy :
> >
> > ...if you get a message like "C compiler cannot create executables"
> >
> > sudo apt-get install build-essential
>
> Nathan,
>
> Many thanks for that information!
>
> Sadly, I'm stuck with a dial-up connection -- no DSL or cable modem
> availability where I'm at. Even worse, I've been unable to consistently
> (especially at any sort of normal modem speeds) get the internal modem on
> that laptop with Ubuntu to work. It's quite maddening. I guess I should hook
>
> up an external RS-232 modem and an RS-232/USB adapter and try that sometime
> to update my Ubuntu installation.
>
> Is there some way to use another PC (e.g. the one at a relative's house with
>
> DSL) to just download an Ubuntu package (i.e. without installing) and then
> transfer that to the Ubuntu PC for installation? I suppose I should be
> looking into 'apt-get', which I've never really used, despite many years of
> GNU/Linux use. I'm just not familiar with the 'apt' system and every
> reference to using it seems to always blithely assume that the machine on
> which you want to install has a broadband connection.
>
> On a related issue/question, I can simply Google for a package to see how
> big
> it is. For example:
>
>    http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/build-essential
>
> shows that this package is 6.8KB (i.e. modem-friendly!). But, just out of
> curiosity, is there any easy, generic way to see how big a package is
> using 'apt' (while connected to the Internet, obviously), i.e. before
> attempting to download/install over a modem connection? I'd RTFM, but
> there's
> no 'M' to 'R' on my Slackware installation! ;^)
>
> Regardless of my modem woes, thanks again for the useful tip/link! I'll
> probably slowly learn the "whys and what-nots of Ubuntu" (but a broadband
> connection would surely help!). :^)
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
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