[Wylug-help] Debian help needed

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 06 April 2008 22:07:00 Stephen Patterson wrote:
> On 06 Apr 08, Richard Ibbotson (richard.ibbotson at gmail.com) wrote:
> > > > > Attempting to download the two packages together with their
> > > > > dictionaries brings me
> > > > > 'E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status(2)
> > > > > E: Unable to lock the download directory'
> >
> > ps ax | grep apt
> > ps ax | grep synaptic
>
> You also need root access, so 'sudo synaptic' may be more useful than
> regular synaptic.

I thought I did use that, but to be honest I'm not certain.

Now I've found suitable packages, how do you do a local install of deb 
packages?  Can I simply apt-get install path/to/packages?

Anne
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