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Could someone tell me how you would go about creating a package CD of .deb files? This would be used if you wanted to update DSL without an internet connection, a prepackaged .dsl file, or remastering.

Say I wanted to have everything for Frozen Bubble together so I could install it to a PC without an internet connection. Would I do an apt-get -d install just like we do for a .dsl file to download the necessary deb files, save to a cd or directory and then do a dpkg -i for each deb file on the pc I want to install the packages on for that program?

I would appreciate some guidance. Thanks

Chris
Chris...
Sounds like dependency hell to me...

You could copy ALL the .deb files that frozen bubble requires to a CD,
then add the cdrom as a repository in your apt/sources.list
( which you can do for any app, to replace an internet connection )
You can use the command apt-cdrom to do this.
Type apt-cdrom for a list of options
(You will still need the dsl-dpkg.dsl extension installed to do this..)

But then you would end up with an installed app, which is
ok for a HD install, but you'd have to apt-get it all over again
every time you rebooted, for a LiveCD...

Which, is basically, what a repackaged .dsl file is,
without having to do the apt-get install thing again...

If you want to install it to a runnning copy of DSL, without an internet connection,
then why would you NOT want a .dsl file, but a collection of .deb's instead?

What's wrong with having frozen-bubble as a .dsl?

73
ke4nt
Thanks for the info!

Nothing wrong with a .dsl at all. I am just thinking in the short term. The limiting factors are my lack of knowledge in creating .dsl files that I need!   :D

I will be doing ALOT of HD installs in the future! If you haven't seen my early posts I have started a NFP to refurbish PC's for needy kids. I have over 200 pc's right now with a couple hundred more coming soon!! Almost all are PI's and PII's.

That is why I was thinking about creating a CD repository.

Thanks

Chris
Well my hopes for a FB.dsl have dwindled....
Seems FB requires GL and GLX , both of which seem to use
the XF86 servers, but I'm not finding any data on
running FB in X..  FB keeps wanting libGL..

I did throw together a clone, which is playable.
But it's not FB...  

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ke4nt
I'll give it a try. I know that FB works. I have had it installed in DSL and Feather. Maybe I'll play with it a little.

Chris
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