Re: First post to list: Make .deb archive available to dselect?

Easy. read the man on dpkg. if you stored all those .deb's in one dir I believe you can jsut use: dpkg -i *.deb :) Falchion Deep Linux/Life thought of the day: The answer to most problems is man. On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Robin Collins wrote: > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:38:07 -0400 (E

COMPAQ IJ600 printer problems

I can not get this printer to work in linux. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do? paraport and para-printer are on in my kernel. It detects the paralalel port. but, for example, if I do cat file > /dev/lp0 I get nothing,. No error messages, but no printout. :< Someone said they think the

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

Actually, Storm Linux, based on Debian (In fact, can use debian's site for apt-getting), has a GREAT installer for newbies actually. Mandrake was also easy to install. Debian should take a look at Storm's installer and newbies will finally have nothign to bitch about. On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 06:48:1