package installation problems from filesystem

[eggmatters]

Hi gang, I'm trying to install sysutils to my Debian kernel 2.6.8-2_i386 (sarge) and am having some problems. I have to download the file from a different computer, put them on my flash drive and then walk to my Debian system and cp them to my /root/dev directory. I am following the directions as proposed in the 'apt-how to' guide posted at: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap...g-scanpackages
I have had success installing other packages in this manner. I need dos2unix so I can install drivers for my wireless card. Here is the long and short of it:

root@eggsmachine:~/debs# lsi
installed  kernel-image-2.6.8-i386  Packages.gz  sysutils_1.3.8.5.1_i386.deb
root@eggsmachine:~/debs# cd ../

root@eggsmachine:~# dpkg-scanpackages debs /dev/null | gzip > Packages.gz

 ** Packages in archive but missing from override file: **

  debhelper kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 kernel-

  image-2.6.8-2-686-smp kernel-package kernel-source-2.6.8 libncurses5

  libncurses5-dev sysutils


  Wrote 9 entries to output Packages file.


root@eggsmachine:~# apt-get update


Ign file: debs/ Release
Reading Package Lists... Done

So far so good but then the important part, installation:

root@eggsmachine:~# apt-get install sysutils

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done

E: Couldn't find package sysutils
root@eggsmachine:~# dpkg -i sysutils

dpkg: error processing sysutils (--install):

 cannot access archive: No such file or directory

Errors were encountered while processing:

 sysutils

So what can I find out about it? Is sysutils the propper name of the package?

root@eggsmachine:~# dpkg -l sysutils

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed

|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)

||/ Name           Version        Description

+++-==============-==============-============================================

un  sysutils       <none>         (no description available)

root@eggsmachine:~#

Well, there it is, unknown and not installed. Umm, I spelled it right, checked it as much as possible. Any ideas? I need that dos2unix utility namely. Thanks

eggmatters

[iwanabeguru]

dpkg -i sysutils-blablabla.deb