debian package installation

[pavNell]

I'm new to the debian distributions and have a question.
I need to install the id3ed package onto my pcLinuxOS debian distribution (a nice distribution for a desktop OS). Doing an '$apt-get install id3ed' produces a 'package not found' message.

So I downloaded the id3ed debian package from the debian website. The file has a .deb extension. How do I install this .deb file/package? Or even more helpfull, perhaps some url's to put into my /etc/apt/sources.list that have this package?

thanks for any help.
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[Trevoke]

I don't use debian, but I would suggest doing a "man apt-get" and looking for an option that lets you tell the program where the package file is.

Alternatively, it might be possible to do an "apt-get add" or something and add the package file as a package.. then the regular "apt-get install" would work.

-Haben sie fosforos?
-No tiengo caballero, but I have un briquet.

 

[pavNell]

ok. well, after googling "man apt-get" I'm going to try this when I get home....

1. add the line, "deb file:/home/myuser/downloads/deb_packages" to /etc/apt/sources.list

2. do a "$apt-get update"

3. then try "$apt-get install id3ed"

if I'm missing something, please let me know.
wish me luck.

 

[BIS]

perhaps the package is not called id3ed, try

apt-cache search id3ed

to see if it has a different name. Then just apt-get install the package.

Also, see 'man dpkg' ...

 

[Trevoke]

* media-sound/id3ed
Available versions: 1.10.4
Installed: 1.10.4
Homepage:

http://www.azstarnet.com/~donut/programs/id3ed.html

Description: ID3 tag editor for mp3 files


It probably is.. That's the name of the package under Gentoo.

-Haben sie fosforos?
-No tiengo caballero, but I have un briquet.

 

[Chacalinc]

hold on... when you download a .deb file (debian installable) you usr [tt]dpkg[/tt] (man dpkg), so ti install your .deb file issue:

dpkg -i id3ed-xxxx.deb

Cheers.


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[jstreich]

The apt-get method he listed above should also work, but dpkg is the "right way" to do it. Other than that he could add the original source of the file to his source list and

apt-get update && apt-get install ide3ed



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