Re: (debian-hppa)dselect

[thunder7@xs4all.nl]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 07:14:16PM +0100, Stephen Day wrote:
> 
> Hello all, I'm new on this list.
> 
> I've been using RedHat and HP-UX for quite some time but am totally new to
> debian.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone can give me some pointers on getting dselect to
> download hppa deb packages. It seems to be downloading x86 packages that
> don't work on my little 712 workstation.
> 
I mostly just say (as root):

apt-get install <name-of-package>

for example:

apt-get install lsof

or, to try and get new packages of everything you've installed:

apt-get update; apt-get upgrade

> Is there a site I should point it at or do I have to download everything as
> source and generally do it the hard way?
> 
You could check /etc/apt/sources.list, mine looks like this:

=================================================================
#deb file:/instmnt/debian sid main

deb cdrom:[Debian HPPA ISO 0.9.2]/ unstable main

deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
=================================================================

but as you can see, nothing specifies hppa-architecure there, so if you
really get x86 packages, something else is wrong.

Good luck,
Jurriaan
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