I found that if you use lynx to go to your ftp site, locate the package, tap enter and the rest happens.
Phil On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Tun Yang wrote: > Hi all, thanks for all who have helped me out so far. Slowly, but steadily, > I'm getting to know how to do things in debian... > My new questions are : How do debian packages work? Everything that came on > the cd works nicely : if you keep it that way. My general question in > short, is, how to install new .deb packages from the net properly? How to > install E, licq, GQMpeg? How to convert rpm to deb properly? (seems most > people has rpm dists) > > Is there somewhere with a debian-beginner-beginner kind of documentation? I > mean, I can't seem to find any docs for how someone is supposed to install > deb packages they got on their own, etc. etc.....I looked through support > and documentation pages on www.debian.org. Support? IRC (hard when you > don't have your computer working, or when you don't feel like wading > through lots of messages. And some people are just kind of rude) > Documentation pages talks mostly about how to get debian installed.... > > the following is some stuff I did, and screwed up, that led to these > questions so maybe you'll have an understanding of where I'm coming from.. > -- > I got all my hardware working, even the sound on my OPL-SA3 using the ALSA > driver... I started to set my sights on the software side of things: X and > windowmaker, and the software to go with it to make it nice and usable. > First off, I tried to get the GQMpeg frontend for mpg123 player. There was > no .deb package, and I couldn't figure out the dependencies (well, I gave > up.. it wasn't very important). Then, I tried to get Licq working, no .deb > package either. Couldn't work it out. Then, I tried to get Enlightenment > the window manager working. Couldn't get it working. I kept trying to get E > to work though... > Steps I took: > 1. Went to www.enlightenment.org > 2. Got the rpm dist > 3. Used Alien on the rpm > 4. did a dpkg -i on the produced deb > 5. dselect, looked at it, and it said it didn't depend on anything and was > installed. E depended on a lot of things though... and when I looked at one > of the info sections, it showed all the deps, but dselect didn't check it. > 6. Decided, fine. I'll try and find a real deb, or some faqs... > 7. Looked on the E faq, told me to get the files needed for debian from a > "grab table", lots of deb packages were shown there, but they were all > broken links. > 8. Found that most of the packages were linked to ftp.debian.org, so I > manually went there, and grabbed packages with the same name, but different > version number.. > 9. To make a long story short, I did dpkg -i on all the packages I got, > enlightenment was happy, but everything else was not. libc was now a 'u' > version, when it was a 't' version before. Everything was screwed up, so I > said, whooooooooo.. and deleted the linux partition. > 10. Re-installed debian (10th time? 20th?) To save time, I didn't > re-install all the packages... just the stuff I seem to use so far. (all > the reqs, some of the standard stuff) > 11. tried to get my sound working again, couldn't get alsa-driver to > compile. > 12. dselect, selected 2.0.34 kernel source, installed it. > 13. alsa-driver still won't compile. > 14. configured the kernel, tried to compiled it, didn't work. missing > a86... > 15. forgot that I needed bin86 package. Installed that. > 16. kernel recompiled uneventfully. didn't do anything with it though > because I didn't need it (Had a previously compiled kernelI was using) > 15. alsa-driver compiled. > 16. alsa-libs compiled > 17. alsa-utils failed to compile. Didn't know why. > 18. Even though ./configure for alsa-utils didn't fail outright, it said > some things weren't found... byacc, bison, etc... > 19. I installed those. Realized, most programs probably rely on standard > packages. So, I installed all the standard packages. > 20. but for some reason, g++ caused a conflict with another standard > package.... g++libstd something or another. > 21. chose g++ because I needed that. > 22. got sound working again, got x working with windowmaker again. > 23. tried to get enlightenment working again, used the "ftp access method" > in dselect to get new updated package listings. New package listings did > not show the deps that E needed. Did a dpkg -a on all the debs I kept from > previous installations. Went in, tried to get all the dependencies working > before installing the packages. > 24. failed miserably. something wrong with libc6 'u' version and libc6 't' > version... > 25. gave up. spent about 10 hours. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 For Debian GNU/Linux CDs see http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~philipc
