Re: Proposal: Source file package format
*- On 31 Dec, Fish Smith wrote about "Re: Proposal: Source file package format "
>>Big problem is getting guys like LSB to buy the .deb
>>format. I haven't
>>researched it, but even guys on the Red Hat list say
>>it's better.
>
>>There are two really horrible things about Debian,
>>though. 1) The
>>dselect
>>package handler. I'm speaking from Debian 2.1 here.
>>It has a very
>>primitive interface and is incredibly tedious. Maybe
>>they're doing
>>something different in potato.
>
> I don't use dselect. I manually download all the
> packages and install and remove them with dpkg from
> the command line. Works fine for me, although it is a
> bit of a pain for packages with lots of dependencies
> to look up and grab all of them individually. Still,
> the interface I've found far easier than dselect.
>
I love dselect. It just takes some getting used to.
Have you tried apt-get yet(In the apt package)? It will save you the
trouble of having to track down all the dependencies. Just 'apt-get
install <package>' and it will download the package and all it's
dependencies for you.
Example for gnome-apt(I don't have any of the gnome stuff installed)
# apt-get install gnome-apt
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
esound gdk-imlib1 gnome-bin gnome-libs-data libart2 libgnome32
libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libzvt2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
esound gdk-imlib1 gnome-apt gnome-bin gnome-libs-data libart2 libgnome32
libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libzvt2
0 packages upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 1289kB of archives. After unpacking 4247kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
That would have taken a full day to track down all those dependencies!
Brian Servis
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