Re: Where's apt-get? Correction
Sorry for the stupid question, but I can't figure out how to get dpkg to
get the apt package. I assume I need to tell it what FTP site and directory
to look at, and what package name to get/install, but I have no idea of
what the syntax is for this command. I've found the apt package
(apt_0.1.3.deb at
ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/admin/), but what's the
dpkg syntax for getting and installing it? If it would be any easier, I can
ftp it to the local drive, then dpkg it to install it (but if so, where
does the file need to be before I run dpkg?). Thanks for any help.
At 02:11 PM 7/22/1998 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Kent West <kent.west@infotech.acu.edu> writes:
>KW> I keep seeing references to using apt-get instead of dselect (or
>KW> maybe somehow in conjunction with dselect). I'm running hamm
>KW> (2.0.34), but when I type "apt-get" or "apt-get update" at the
>KW> prompt (as root), I get "command not found". When I try to "locate
>KW> apt-get", it returns nothing. Is this a package that needs to be
>KW> installed that I've missed?
>
>apt-get is in the apt package, in slink. You shouldn't have any
>problems just downloading and installing the package via dpkg. In its
>current incarnation, APT appears as an additional dselect method that
>deals with at least HTTP and FTP; change your dselect access method to
>use APT. You also might need to manually configure your
>/etc/apt/sources.list file; see the sources.list(5) man page for
>details on the file format.
>
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