[SOLVED] installing kernel-package

[Embiggens]

Oh, I'm so scared- this is my first post and I really hope it's not a dumb question.
I need to upgrade to a new kernel (Debian woody)- I bs'd my way through this process before (ie, somewhat blindly followed a how-to) the generic linux way, but I need to do this again and wanted to try the Debian way. So, I need to install 'kernel-package' and 'libc5-dev'. What I'm confused about is (and I think this gets at a more fundamental linux question that I'm sure shows my newbie-ness)- WHERE do I install these?

Every HOW-TO and stuff like that I find says to get this file and program using apt-get (so they gloss over where these are installed), but I'm not networked yet. So, do I need to install these to the right folders and/or set up the links for kernel-package myself? Any help in getting me out of this confused state sure would be great.

[bwkaz]

If you have the .deb files downloaded, I believe you can run dpkg -i /path/to/whatever.deb to install it from the local filesystem.

I think this is the same as "apt-get install whatever", it just doesn't do either the automatic dependency fetching or the download-from-the-internet step. (Actually, it might try to fetch dependencies, I'm not sure on that. I don't believe it does though -- but it will complain if you don't have something installed that it needs.)

[Embiggens]

did a little more reading and finally got back to this- dpkg does fetch dependencies, and now I'm a linux expert (jk). Thanks so much for your help.