--- Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > * William Bradley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030914 18:44]: > > Thank you to everyone who responded to the above. So far I have simply > > downloaded the deb file and haven't an idea how to install it. Been playing > > > with dpkg and dselect but it still sits there doing nothing. > > > > Subsequent messages have shown me how to get and install it online but I > would > > still like to know how to do it as a package on the system. > > Let me guess ... an ex-redhat user? ;-) > > To install a deb that sits on your filesystem, you can use > 'dpkg -i filename.deb'. You hardly ever do that on a debian system, > though (unless you're compiling your own debs, for example a kernel > package or something). > > Generally, you use a frontend to manage package selection from a proper > package repository, be that on an http server somewhere (like an online > debian mirror) or a cdrom, or a mix of a few of those. This way, you > get a number of advantages. First, you don't have to go hunting for the > package to download. You let apt fetch it for you. Second, you don't > have to worry about dependencies. I remember from my redhat days (the > bad old days) spending lots of time downloading rpms and trying to > install them, only to find out I needed to download yet more rpms, which > in turn depended on yet other rpms. This "rpm hell" was one of the > biggest reasons I switched to debian. Debian's package management tools > are way ahead of anything redhat uses, and they take care of all of the > dependencies for you. (Of course, this is really a feature of the > well-maintained packages in the distribution rather than of the package > management tools themselves.) >
http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/ APT is available to RedHat (and other RPM-based distro) users, just many people don't know about it. -Roberto ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
