I'm not an extremely long-term Debian user, but in the sake of getting you a quick response: Apt is a method of getting the files from the servers mostly, but it has added features now to frontend dpkg also. In dselect, you can use the "apt" method of getting files, which by default uses the main Debian HTTP/FTP servers, and you can edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point toward a good mirror (highly recommended). Apt also has the functionality of apt-get which frontends dpkg installation and also gets the files requested along with any dependencies. So, for example, you can type "apt-get install [packagename]" and it will use the information in /etc/apt/sources.list again to download the package you requested and all the packages required to install it and then it will run dpkg to do the installation. I haven't ever used dpkg-ftp, so can't comment on it's usefulness. Apt appears to have somewhat superceded it (or perhaps it's officially superceded it, I don't know...). Deity I have no information on, as I haven't tried it. Console-Apt is also available "capt" which looks to be an alternative to dselect. Still in development -- played with it, didn't find it all that intuitive (which is dselect's problem too...) so haven't continued using it. (It hasn't stepped up to add any usability or features that I'm aware of that dselect doesn't have, IMHO, but that will change since it's actively under development.) That's about all I know... I use both apt-get and dselect intermixed these days. Dselect to find packages of interest and apt-get to do updates, etc. For example, "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" will update the Packages.gz file on your machine and download any upgraded packages. Nice for developers/testers running unstable, and I guess also a little dangerous at the same time, if a package is broken in the archives at the moment you do that update/upgrade. Good luck, welcome back. On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 01:34:00AM -0600, Chris R. Martin wrote: > Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having > trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and > "deity" (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect > and dpkg are; dselect acts as a frontend (or used to) for dpkg. How does > apt and deity fit into that picture? Are they replacements? It seems like > dselect uses something called "apt-get" now for ftp and such, but why is > there a dpkg-ftp package? > > Thanks for any light you can shed on this. > Chris > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null > -- Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
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