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Re: Newbie Question



Try:
    dpkg -i man-db
I'm not sure of the exact syntax, but basically you're telling the debian installer
(dpkg, of which dselect is the front-end) to install the man-db .deb package. Or if
you have apt, you can try:
    apt-get install man-db
Again, I'm not sure of the syntax. Apt is the next-generation replacement for
dselect/dpkg, but is only partially functional; even so, many Debs prefer it to
dselect/dpkg.

"Costa, Michael J." wrote:

> I have just loaded down the man-db package. However I can't seem to find any
> documentation on how to convert the .deb packages to anything useful. Any
> help would be much appreciated.
>
> man-db packages was --->
> <ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/doc/man-db_2.3.10
> -65.deb>
>
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