On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:12:32 -0600 "David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Henrik Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > A final comment:
> > The install procedure is not half as hard as everyone
> > said! Refreshing actually!
>
> Glad you found it that way.
>
> Personally, my experience has been less than good. (I'm still
> experimenting, and am by no means ready to give up yet.)
Sorry to hear you're having trouble getting it setup to work with your
hardware. I came to Debian straight from playing with Mandrake (7.1 &
7.2, I think) and have loved it ever since.
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> The apt-get tool, from what little I've seen so far, is quite nice. I
> didn't find dependencies especially hard to manage in RedHat, though,
> and apt-get seems to sacrifice the *really really useful* rpm -ql and
> rpm -qf capabilities (asking for all the files in a package, and
> asking for what package a file came from). At least I haven't found
> how to do it yet.
dpkg -L <package_name> - lists the files installed by 'package_name'
dpkg -S <file_name> - lists the package(s) that contain files matching
the 'file_name' you entered.
"man dpkg" for some more really helpful tools. It's not part of apt, but
still uses Debian's great package management system. Both dpkg and apt
have their own distinct and wonderful uses in my arsenal of tools.
> The layers of sources is *really good* design, and will make my life
> easier, and use less net bandwidth, and generally be a very good
> thing.
>
> As I say, despite having some troubles on the initial learning curve,
> I'm still favorably inclined and expect to eventually convert my
> systems to Debian.
The fastest way I've found to learn Debian is to install it on your
desktop machine and force yourself to use it, instead of resorting to
whatever other OS may be installed to dual-boot. :-)
HTH & HAND,
Jacob
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