Re: Suggestion to future debian releases

[David M <davidm@harmonic.gse.rmit.EDU.AU>]

Hello Bruce,

> You can move that "man" package over on a floppy and install it.
> dpkg -i <package-name> should do, unless it depends on another package,
> in which case it will tell you about that.

I have tried this but there are dependencies.  I keep getting the 
required packages down only to find out that they too need some other 
package...  Is there a command (or maybe a dpkg argument) that I can use 
to find out exactly what packages I need to install some other package?  
I checked the Packages file on the debian FTP site but there seem to be 
other packages required besides those listed here.
 
> The base system is the smallest one that permits you to install packages.
> If you had a CD, it might be different - I think we might support more
> default packages in a system installed from CD eventually, because there
> is not the size problem we have with the floppy-based install.

Ok. That makes sense. :)

Regards,

David


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