Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?
Peter Ludwig wrote:
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> January 1999 have net account will download!
> At the beginning of the year I'd gotten very bored with everything and
> decided to attempt to download and install debian off the net. This time
> things went great. To summarize the good points I have found with debian
> :-
>
> 1) Package list is very large, and so provides a large amount of options
> for its users.
> 2) Software is free. This is good for me who is broke.
> 3) dselect. Yep, I think dselect is very good. requires a little fine
> tuning to me (like search facility, faster loading of package lists, etc),
> but pretty decent job.
I believe there is a search facility in dselect - the / key will search
the package names for a string, the \ key will search again.
I think it would be useful to be able to search the descriptions as
well, though.
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> 3) No documentation on how to load/use the original programs that loaded
> when installing. That is, can I load again the program that allowed me to
> setup the modules??? If so where is it? Those programs are very helpful
> for initial installation, but sometimes (as in my case) you might change
> your mind later on and want to use that program to go over something
> again.
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I think modconf is what you're after. The other program on the install
disks, pkgsel, (the one where you select the groups of packages) doesn't
get installed unfortunately.
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