Re: Need help in installing kde for ubuntu

On 11/23/05, Calixto Ong II <[email protected]> wrote:

> I went to /var/cache/apt/package and burn all the files there to a CD
> using k3b this includes
> all the .deb files.
>
> My problem is when I open the CD on the other ubuntu machine and run
>     sudo dpkg -i kubuntu-desktop..something
>
> It wont work.. It ask for more dependencies.. I copied all the .deb
> files in the CD in the
> /var/chache/apt/package folder and still dpk won't work. I'm a newbie so
> I don't know
> yet what to do.
>
> Any ideas?

That is the problem with such an approach; by merely copying .debs
into /var/cache/apt/archives and doing a dpkg --install <packages> in
that directory, you run the risk of not having the right packages at
hand.

I suggest you read up on apt-zip.  Hope that helps!

Cheers,

Zakame

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