On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 05:54:41PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Hi all- > > I'm relatively new to Debian (just migrated from S.u.S.E.) and was > wondering if anyone knows of any books that have a Debian slant. > I'd like to know things like is there a debian command equivalent to > rpm -q with rpm-based distributions and any other little tidbits dpkg -l does the trick. > > Also, I seem to be having problems setting permissions and ownerships > correctly on files so that I can start a ppp connection as a user. > I have been able to install my ppp-scripts in other dists and change a > few ownerships and permissions and bingo, I can start a dialup session > without a problem. Install package called super (it's a way of giving root privs to users with some control) I used that just before I got my leased line setup. > > Also is there some sort of log file that I can peruse to see all that > I have installed on my system? I'm installing via ftp over a 57K modem Hmm... dpkg -l will output list of all packages along with their state. This is useful for quick glance. If You want more info either use dpkg -s <pkg> or dselect (togheter with apt deselct is realy good)
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