Op Sun, 03 Apr 2016 10:56:23 +0200 schreef Mark Fletcher
<mark2...@gmail.com>:
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016, 17:11 Floris <jkflo...@dds.nl> wrote:
Op Sat, 02 Apr 2016 19:46:09 +0200 schreef Alan McConnell
<a...@his.com>:
Well, I finally got my Jessie installed! I had to pick a different
kernel than then one
suggested, but things finally went through. I was even able to use the
partitions I had
prepared and carefully sized.
My question: how do I install "new" SW? E.g. emacs, and mutt, and
ImageMagick? These
are not found on the one CD I have. I have in addition a thumb drive,
which came with
my purchase from LinuxCollections. I have mounted it and find that it
is chock full
of .deb files. I suppose there is some way of 'manually' copying a
particular .deb
to my disk and then installing it. But I am afraid of getting stuck in
"dependency
hell". Does someone here also have the same CD + thumb drive
situation.
TIA,
Alan
I just don't understand why anyone would pay money for Jessie in the
first place. It's supposed to be free software...
Respect to anyone who chooses to donate to the project, or to the
upstream of packages they particularly derive value from, >but surely
the thing to do would be to use it, then decide to do that??? What's the
use case that makes sense to pay for it >before you've tried it?
BTW best answer in my opinion is get networking working, then set up
sources.list to point at the repos as others have >suggested. If
networking isn't available, sources.list set up to use the thumb drive
as others have suggested is the way to >go. Either way, once at up,
there are commands line apt-get install <package> to install software
and keep it up to date.
Mark
I don't know if the OP has a good Internet connection or need some
non-free firmware packages to make it work. But you are right. Get your
network up-and-running so you can make sure you have the most stable and
secure packages available.
Floris
