Re: Installing separate packages / graphical login
1)just do: dpkg -i packagename
don't forget also "man dpkg".
2)remove "xdm" from /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc6.d
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, pfau wrote:
> hello, folks
>
> as I´m a debian newbie (coming from suse), may be the following
> questions are stupid, but I got stuck with them.
>
> 1) Is there a way to install a deb-package which is not included in the
> standard distribution.
> If I try to install a package that I downloaded from Internet, dselect
> always asks me on some package.cd files to recognize the packages as
> part of the distribution, which of course I cannot give, and so dselect
> does not do the job; and alien does only work correct with small
> packages (deb -> rpm -> install) without broken dependencies
>
> 2) where is the information stored, that debian starts with graphical
> login? I want to finish boot process at the prompt, but debian always
> starts his graphical login utility. Can this behaviour only be changed
> by deinstalling the utility?
>
> thanks in advance
> Roger
>
>
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