Re: Easy ways of configuring Debian

1997-02-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: > What do I use instead of dselect to install software? I have all these > .deb packages on my vfat partition that need installing. Thanks for the > info... > dpkg -i //package_version.deb Luck, Dwarf

Re: Easy ways of configuring Debian

1997-02-19 Thread Shaya Potter
You can use dpkg by itself. dpkg -i package_name. Read the help page for dpkg, it is not that difficult once you get used to it. Shaya On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Feb 1

Re: Easy ways of configuring Debian

1997-02-19 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote: > > > > > I think this is a great idea. LinuxConf makes the > > > configuration far easy for beginners. Let's think about > > > this... > > > > I am a Linux beginne

Re: Easy ways of configuring Debian

1997-02-19 Thread Shaya Potter
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote: > > > I think this is a great idea. LinuxConf makes the > > configuration far easy for beginners. Let's think about > > this... > > I am a Linux beginner, and I find dselect confusing. If this will make > d

Re: Easy ways of configuring Debian

1997-02-18 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote: > I think this is a great idea. LinuxConf makes the > configuration far easy for beginners. Let's think about > this... I am a Linux beginner, and I find dselect confusing. If this will make dselect less confusing, then it's a *great* idea! I'll check