On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 06:31:24PM -0400, infotechsys wrote: > I used Steve Hunger's CD to install potatoe on
Potato's a bit old, why not upgrade to Woody? > my son's cpu. When I entered command "lpstat" > the reply was that the command was not known. > So, I entered "dpkg -s *" and the following lines appeared- > Package: lpr > Status: install ok not-installed > Priorty: standard > Section: net lpstat is in lprng and cupsys-client, not lpr > I'm not sure what this is telling me. The package lpr is properly installed, unfortunately you are trying to use a command that is in a different (&& !installed) package. > I would have assumed that this package would have > been installed. Can I install it from this CD? I don't > have my internet connection yet. If the CD has lprng or cupsys. You should probably try something other than lpr anyway, its getting a bit old. > I'm trying to print some of documentation on Debian > so I may learn how to use dpkg, dselect, and apt.After > reading some of the man pages on these tools I'm > a little confuse as to how these tools are interrelated or are they? They are related. > Can someone give me a brief history as to which tool > came first, so that I can put these tools into prospective. dpkg came first. It was around in 1995. Then came dselect, a frontend to dpkg, and it came out later in 1995. apt is the newest of the three listed. It came out in 1999. If you want to use a frontend instead of the command line, my suggestion would be to use aptitude. If you want to use the command line, use apt. aptitude is a frontend to apt (and these days, dselect is also). apt calculates dependencies and will install packages to meet them. dpkg does the actual installation/removal of packages. IMHO dselect is an annoying frontend, aptitude is a not as annoying frontend. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
