Urban Gabor wrote: > > Though it might be a lamer question, I would like to know the major > differences between dselect and apt.
dselect is menu based, and apt is command-line based. dselect is slightly confusing, and apt is pretty straightforward. I think xdselect (if there's any such thing) would be a lot neater than dselect. >I do not upgrade my boxes via ftp, I > allways (more or less :-)) ) wait till the new release is assembled in CD > images. Why would I switch to apt? I always do the installation using the Net, 'cause I don't have the CDs yet... Oki -- Shells Command shells. Friendly user interfaces for beginners. http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/