Re: Potato from scratch. Thanks.
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 11:02:08AM +0100, Hans wrote:
> But I've always wondered about one thing: how do you know the name
> of the package you want to install. At least with dselect you have a menu
> to search.
I use both apt-get and dselect. If I want to browse what's available, or
hunt down the name of a package I want to install, then I use dselect. If I
already know the package's name, then I use apt-get.
If I had a high-speed Internet connection, then I probably wouldn't use
dselect. I'd just use apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. But I don't, so
I'm now spending time with dselect and weeding out unnecessary applications.
> But now I want to install X, so is "apt-get -d install X" right?
Nope. Although I've thought that something like that would be a nice
feature. You'll probably want to use dselect and fish around for the right
packages. You should also hit the XFree site and look up your video card;
it'll tell you which server to download.
--
David J. Kanter
djkanter@nwu.edu
"Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies
and coincidences."
-- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
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