Sreeni R Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SRN> I am a newbie to debian, and not familiar with dselect, dpkg and SRN> apt. Is there any available document or URL that compares rpm SRN> with the above tools (like the equivalent commands etc.)? Any SRN> help is much appreciated.
dpkg is sort of like rpm. In particular, dpkg --install (or dpkg -i) is sort of like a sane combination of rpm's -i and -U switches, and dpkg --remove or dpkg --purge is like rpm -e. AFAIK, Red Hat doesn't have anything like dselect or APT. dselect displays a list of packages, and lets you pick and choose which to install. APT's most commonly used features are 'apt-get upgrade', which downloads all updated packages and installs them, and 'apt-get install', which downloads and installs a named package and all of its dependencies. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
