Re: Potato from scratch. Thanks.
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. Now I want to install Midnight Commander, so I guess that is
> "apt-get -d install mc" (I'd like to download the package as well for use
> on another machine and I've read the -d flag will do that).
Actually this happens without the -d. Look in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
I thought that -d was for "download *only* and don't actually install",
but ICBVW.
(to get rid of all the archived downloads, do apt-get clean. I don't
know whether that happens automatically when the files get very old, or
the disk gets full... I hope it does)
> But now I want to install X, so is "apt-get -d install X" right? Then how
> do I choose that the right server is being downloaded? This always puzzled
> me a bit, but I guess the answer will come in time :-)
Here's my trick: Bookmark http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/ and
use that to find what packages you want.
For a dselect-like view of packages, try gnome-apt, console-apt or
aptitude (I've only ever used gnome-apt, which seems to work although
it's not the friendliest interface around).
HTH,
Stuart.
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