RE: nis tools package
Thanks.
-----Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher C. Chimelis [mailto:chris@debian.org]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 11:20 PM
To: Waite, Michael
Cc: 'debian-alpha@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: nis tools package
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Waite, Michael wrote:
> It seems that by default there are not any "YP" nor "NIS" packages
available
> with Debian.
> I had to go to ftp.debian.org and get nis_3.5-2.deb
>
> Now that I have it how to I install a ".deb" package so that this system
can
> be an nis client?
That's odd (about not seeing the package at first). To install the
package:
dpkg -i nis_3.5-2.deb
That will install it for you. You could also do an:
apt-get install nis
Which will fetch the deb for you from the ftp site and install it.
C
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