Re: GNOME and Packages
celtic-rogue@mindspring.com wrote:
>I am very new to Debian, and linux in general. I installed hamm, base12
>this afternoon, and tried to install GNOME with it but when I told the
>install to get the packages from the floppies where I had copied the files
>I downloaded from GNOME's ftp site it said there were no packages there?
What exactly did you download? Debian packages have names ending in .deb
and are usually to be found on a Debian mirror (though some upstream
sites publish .debs) If you have some .deb files, you can install them
with the command `dpkg -i package1.deb package2.deb ...' (which you have
to run as root).
dselect needs a Packages file describing what is on the media you are
installing from.
>Also.. I was told by someone in an irc.debian.org channel that the dir
>command worked in Debian, but it doesn't work for me.
dir is in the fileutils packge, which is an essential package. Try
the command `/bin/dir'. If that works, the problem is that your search
path is set wrong. If it doesn't, run `dpkg --status fileutils' - the output
should contain a line like this:
Status: install ok installed
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If it is not `ok installed', you have not managed to complete the
installation of your base system properly.
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