Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:25:00PM -0200, Jose Gracia Neto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Calm down! If you want, you can use a simpler apt-get interface called > console-apt - it requires a ncurses package. Or aptitude, which I believe is an update on capt. Rather different n woody, potato, and s

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-02-02 Thread Jose Gracia Neto
Calm down! If you want, you can use a simpler apt-get interface called console-apt - it requires a ncurses package. Now, for dselect you'll get used to it quickly. If you want a graphical browser like Netscape, you'll have to edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following: deb http://http.us.de

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread Casey Webster
if they are .deb's, you can dpkg -i package.deb as for yur browser, apt-get install communicator-smotif-476 apt-get install mozilla apt-get install lynx pick the one you like best. -Casey On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:03:15AM -0200, hzi wrote: > Good people of the community- > > Why on God

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:14:00PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:03:15AM -0200, hzi wrote: > > Good people of the community- > > > > Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users > > when they made dselect? > > I simply can't understand why it doesn'

RE: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread Alec Clews
Maybe you should use 'dpkg ' in this situation.   Yes deselect is awkward   And I'm using Windows 2K and MS Outlook :-(((   -Original Message-From: hzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2001 15:03To: debian-user@lists.debian.orgSubject: Dselect - a diffi

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:03:15AM -0200, hzi wrote: > Good people of the community- > > Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users when > they made dselect? > I simply can't understand why it doesn't accept a simple path (e.g., > /cdrom/debian/potato) to some fi