Re: Newbie installation query

2003-11-26 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:51:18AM -0800, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > > apt-get also works fine, you just don't get the feedback of the effect of > adding/removing a package that you get with dselect, but of course it > does the same conflict/dependency resolution. With the -s option for apt-get you

Re: Newbie installation query

2003-11-26 Thread Arthur Barlow
IMHO, your best bet is to install "aptitude." Aptitude will manage all the upgradeable packages in a single instance for you if you choose that route. It's on the ISO disk. Do apt-get -u install aptitude. On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 09:29, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > I am a former RedHat user a

Re: Newbie installation query

2003-11-26 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > I am a former RedHat user and now want to try out Debian. I have dabbled in > debian before but have always messed up, usually in the installation > (using dselect). Plus, I only got kde 2.2 even after I updated the woody > install. This time

Newbie installation query

2003-11-26 Thread Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.
I am a former RedHat user and now want to try out Debian. I have dabbled in debian before but have always messed up, usually in the installation (using dselect). Plus, I only got kde 2.2 even after I updated the woody install. This time I decided I would rough it out :). After reading up on the n