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?
>
>
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hello,
I'm postive if this will work, but if you try it, let me know! To make 'apt'
use --force options you need to have debconf installed, then edit the file
/etc/apt.conf or /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf to look like the following...
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --ap
on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:44:14PM +0530, omicron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > You might want to look at apt-zip which is intended for this situation.
>
> hi, how do i make apt-zip look into a subdirectory ? It is asking
> for a mounted partiti
I don't know about apt-zip, but dpkg -iR
works for me when I download a deb file. HTH Dean
- Original Message -
From: "omicron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Karsten M. Self"
Cc: ;
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: dpkg help
> On Tue,
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> You might want to look at apt-zip which is intended for this situation.
hi, how do i make apt-zip look into a subdirectory ? It is asking
for a mounted partition with a noauto flag set . To requote the original
question , if i have debian packa
on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:29:35PM +0530, omicron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> hi
> i've libc6 2.2.4-* and i want to upgrade from the old to the new.
> I dont have a very fast net connection so i've to download it to some
> other place and then trasfer it here. i also have most of the depende
hi
i've libc6 2.2.4-* and i want to upgrade from the old to the new.
I dont have a very fast net connection so i've to download it to some
other place and then trasfer it here. i also have most of the dependencies
and "recommended" packages of libc6. I've kept them in a directory
/misc/tmp.
> > And if I'm using bash? Sorry I can't try it out as I'm not in Linux at
> > the moment.
> on my system dpkg --help | less works fine. The person who had trouble
> with it said it did not work for him/her. Now the problem would be because
> their dpkg --help
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 05:46:00AM +, Ian Watkins wrote:
> DM> > IW> instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem
> DM> into
> DM> try
> DM> dpkg --help |& less
>
> DM> for tcsh
>
> And if I'm using bash? So
DM> > IW> instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem
DM> into
DM> try
DM> dpkg --help |& less
DM> for tcsh
And if I'm using bash? Sorry I can't try it out as I'm not in Linux at
the moment.
Ian W
Karachi, Pakistan
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Igor Grobman wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 98, "IW" == IAN WATKINS wrote:
>
> IW> On my system the dpkg --help seems to come out on the wrong console. For
> IW> instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn&
II> IW> Is this correct behaviour or am I missing something? AFAICT al
II> IW> other packages I have done a | less on to get the help have wo
II> IW> expected.
II> Dpkg --help prints on stderr, not on stdout as most others do. This
II> expected behavior, and a bug
>>>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 98, "IW" == IAN WATKINS wrote:
IW> On my system the dpkg --help seems to come out on the wrong console. For
IW> instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem to come into
IW> the picture at all.
To check this ou
On my system the dpkg --help seems to come out on the wrong console. For
instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem to come
into the picture at all.
To check this out I did dpkg --help 2> dpkg.txt and all the help came
out in the file.
Is this correct behaviour
For your interest, I would suggest that a help screen along the lines
of the following would be more helpful, at least to myself, and
perhaps others. This file is to be considered bogus, however, unless
someone corrects and extends it. Mainly, I don't understand most of
these parameters; in parti
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