On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:32:12 -0500 Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> wrote: > At 09:12 PM 2/13/2004, Jacob S. wrote: > > >I thought for sure you had said it was a Netgear card... > > 'Tis... fa310tx to be exact. Apparently it works with the tulip driver > just fine, got 'top' running on an ssh session as I write this -- > watching my new debian box do essentially nothing at the moment. :) Ah, ok. My guess would have been natsemi, for a Netgear card. > >if you have a decent 'net connection, use apt-get from your nearest > >mirror to download the extra packages you want... much easier than > >downloading/burning ISOs. > > So apt is what we use in debian; cool. Now all I need is to establish > name recognition. Well, it's actually just one of the tools. Apt-get is a front-end for the dpkg package management system. If you want the Debian equivalent of rpm-qa, use dpkg(-l). If you want something to hold your hand a little more than apt-get, try aptitude (or so I'm told... I learned apt-get and never felt like changing. Apt-get by itself is years beyond what rpm was, when I played around with it.) There's also dselect, but it's usually only referred to in nightmares... :-) All the tools get their list of available packages for installation from /etc/apt/sources.list. HTH, Jacob ----- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #2: Microsoft gives you Windows... Linux gives you the whole house.
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