On Tuesday 07 November 2000 14:49, Sreeni R. Nair wrote: > Hi: > > I am a newbie to debian, and not familiar with dselect, dpkg and apt. Is > there any available document or URL that compares rpm with the above > tools (like the equivalent commands etc.)? Any help is much appreciated.
The hardest thing you'll have to do is define /etc/apt/sources correctly (took me a few hours to figure it out for a server that wasn't listed in debian's official mirrors list). If you have a fast net connection (or are VERY patient), you can use mine: --------begin----------- deb ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/.1/linux/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free # This is not an official part of the stable distribution; If you don't want # kde on your potatoe system, you don't need this. deb http://kde.tdyc.com stable kde2 --------end------------- I am loving debian, now that I'm figuring out how and when to use apt-get. It's great! Have fun! -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
