Re: Newbie question
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 03:07:31PM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 November 2000 14:49, Sreeni R. Nair wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I am a newbie to debian, and not familiar with dselect, dpkg and apt. Is
> > there any available document or URL that compares rpm with the above
> > tools (like the equivalent commands etc.)? Any help is much appreciated.
>
> The hardest thing you'll have to do is define /etc/apt/sources correctly
> (took me a few hours to figure it out for a server that wasn't listed in
> debian's official mirrors list).
this also works wonders -- try:
apt-setup
> --
> Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you
> will hear the voice of Satan?
>
> That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
delightful!
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