Re: What is apt-get

2000-02-07 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, [iso-8859-1] chris Günther wrote: > Dear Gurus, > > I'm pretty new to Debian and therefore have some silly questions. My first > is: > > what is all this apt-get about? > > What is it good for and how does it work (Disclaimer: I'm not a Guru) It's good for installin

Re: What is apt-get

2000-02-03 Thread Lane Lester
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I'm a somewhat experienced Linux newbie (if there is such a thing), so I know about apt-get. I tried to use it to get something, and it suggested that I might want to run "apt-get -f install". Trying to be open to suggestions, I told it to go ahead. Well, i

Re: What is apt-get

2000-02-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
Dselect uses /var/lib/dpkg/available to show the available packages. 'apt-get update' does not update this file, only the *Packages and *Release files in /var/state/apt/lists. Bob On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:18:59AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > "David Z. Maze" wrote: > > > > > APT also integrate

Re: What is apt-get

2000-02-03 Thread Kent West
"David Z. Maze" wrote: > APT also integrates with the traditional Debian package > manager front-end, dselect That's what I always thought, but maybe I've got something configured weird on my boxes, because I've noticed on several occasions that I can do an "apt-get update" and then go into

Re: What is apt-get

2000-02-03 Thread David Z. Maze
nther writes: CG> what is all this apt-get about? CG> CG> What is it good for and how does it work APT stands for "A Package Tool". It's essentially a wrapper around the Debian package manager, dpkg, that provides some useful functionality. You tell APT where Debian packages can be downloaded

Re: What is apt-get

2000-02-03 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, apt-get is the front end to dpkg is simplest terms. What is dpkg you ask. dpkg is the package manager for debian. get to know apt-get it makes installing debian packages a dream. Here some information about apt and dpkg. Package: apt Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: ad

Re: What is apt-get Install

1998-07-07 Thread joost
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: > Would someone please explain that > 1) What is the apt-get install apt-get is a program and it comes with the apt package. Normally, one would do: apt-get update Which gets the Packages.gz files from the archive (ftp or cdrom, or whatever is in your /

Re: What is apt-get Install

1998-07-07 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 08:51:02PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > Would someone please explain that > 1) What is the apt-get install apt-get install checks out apt's own database of packages (which is updated by apt-get update) of what is available for download. It then downloads and installs the lates