Hello Thomas, On Sun, 28 May 2000, Thomas Niesel wrote:
> Now I want to know how to get deb-files to the disk. > Still got an corel-image which I know its debian-based, mounted as an > loop-device. > I can browse the CD but I don't know how to install the files. > I know it's maybe old stuff but to play around it is ok. > The man-program is missing so I can't look at the man-pages on the disk :( mandb is not included in the base system, and debian provides three different tools to install packages. 1.) dpkg: low-level package-handler. type something like dpkg --install /unix/path/to/packagename.deb to install a package. If there are dependency problems, the program will exit with an error message and tell you which packages are missing, so you can install them first. 2.) dselect: nice front-end to dpkg, allows you to specify a install method, browse a list of available packages and mark them for installation. Just type 'dselect' to start it. It will tell you if there are dependency problems and mark the required packages for installation. When you quit the list, you can specify (via a menu) install, and it will install. 3.) apt: nice command line frontend to dpkg, but I would not recommend using it for a first install of Debian (although, when you get used to it, it is really a powerful and easy to use package-management system, especially for upgrades. It will fetch the packages automagically and take care of dependencies and version numbers (you just specify the package names, not the full file name with version number and deb-extension). So install man-db via dpkg (or dselect), then read the man-page of apt-get (not apt, the actual program is called apt-get), and see what you can get out of it (as you worked with other distros and managed to mount a CD-ROM, I suppose, a lot). Regards, Daniel P.S.: don't know, if the corel image will work well, I have absolutely no experience in mixing debian and corel and what's the difference between the two. If you have fast internet-connectivity, you could give frozen a try, I am using it since about February and have not had severe problems (although there are still some bugs).(And it's no problem to upgrade the packages later, apt-get will do that for you. Automagically!)
