Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:38:57PM -0800, wells wrote: > So I have been running Debian for a month now after jumping ship from Red > Hat and I'm trying to devise a solid method of maintaining my system. > > What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling from > source? > >

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dselect is a nice front end if you can live with its idiosyncracies wrt > key commands. It does not take long to learn them. Just 2 or 3 times use of dselect. No prob. :) > Another nice front end is feta, available with /etc/apt/sources.list > line Hm

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread dave mallery
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, wells wrote: > So I have been running Debian for a month now after jumping ship from Red > Hat and I'm trying to devise a solid method of maintaining my system. > > What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling from > source? > > Moreover, what's th

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 13:19, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling > > from source? > > If you know the package name -> apt-get install package. > Search for with apt-cache search. To clarify for wells

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Joerg Jaspert
wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling > from source? If you know the package name -> apt-get install package. Search for with apt-cache search. >From the frontends dselect is the best, and for dist-upgrades only use dselect, not

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:38:57 -0800 wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling from > source? apt-get or dselect... or aptitude, or gnome-apt... or deity... it's a matter of personal preference > Moreover, what's the difference? I see

Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread wells
So I have been running Debian for a month now after jumping ship from Red Hat and I'm trying to devise a solid method of maintaining my system. What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling from source? Moreover, what's the difference? I see apt-get, dselect, dpkg-- wh