[ale] HOW2 force the installation of a utililty that is "out ofversion" in Debian ?

[courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net (Courtney Thomas)]

Preston,

Thank you. That worked.

But I now find that Testing does not implement de620, my NIC driver, which
is uniquely problematical
in that it's an external parallel port NIC [I have no more slots].

Since Woody did have the de620 module, is there a Testing solution, given
that I have no more slots for a NIC ?

Appreciatively,
Courtney


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Preston Boyington" <preston.lists at gmail.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] HOW2 force the installation of a utililty that is "out
ofversion" in Debian ?


> Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > Thanks James. I already tried that. In fact, that's how I got the
formerly
> > working version of pump into
> >     /var/cache/apt/archives
> >
> > Then I tried,
> >     apt-get install pump
> >
> > with the previously posted err msg of
> >     no candidate for installation.
> >
>
> that right.  apt is looking for the download mirror.  if you move it to
> a directory yourself then you will use "dpkg" (debian package) to
> install it.  (apt is just a nice frontend to dpkg)
>
> if it were me i would do this:
> place the pump deb in /opt/<some directory>
> open a terminal
> cd /opt/<some directory>
> then do:
> dpkg -i foo-vvv-rrr.deb
>
> this will install a package (including unpacking and configuring) onto
> the file system of the hard disk.
>
> i think this is more what you are after.
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