Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That did it! Thanks a lot, Gary! > > Just one more little question, since I'm new to Debian. How can I notice > which packages are virtual and which other are not?
Hmm. There are very few "virtual" packages. That's the only one I've ever run across, and in potato they were able to do away with them for netscape and use full-blown packages. Best way to do it is use dselect. It's not fun to learn but it gives you a nice concise description, including the fact that a package is just an installer. Other than that you can read the descriptions manually in the "Packages" files that debian uses. For apt these files are kept in /var/state/apt/lists with "_Packages" at the end of the file name. Glad you're up and running! Gary
