Re: help with ftp site please
Find out which packages you need and then use apt to install them:
apt-get update (get the newest packagest list)
apt-get install <package 1> <package 2> ... (downloads and
installs automatically)
Ron
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote:
> I am trying to download a basic package for the 68K Mac from the Debian
> ftp site and could use some help please.
>
> Files seem to be spread all over with no rhyme or reason. As a result I
> can't be sure what I need or where to find it (and I've installed Debian
> once before and BSD once too). There seems to be a basic package that is
> not clearly labeled as such (just "Debian") and is, to my way of
> thinking, way too small to be a full basic install. (About 14 megs
> stuffed, including the Base2.1gz file which of course was somewhere else
> on the ftp site. WHY?WHY?WHY?). The minimalist information on the web
> site also seems to suggest very strongly that there are no man pages
> included with the above "package", but that the man pages must be
> downloaded separately, also difficult to make sense of, from a separate
> page. The packages page took me a couple of hours to find at all, then
> when I did, it made little sense. I opened the X windows page and found
> everything in there EXCEPT X windows!!! Unless the Debian folks have
> performed a Guiness class miracle in compact software design, Xwindows is
> certainly not contained in the "Debian" package, it also isn't in the X
> folder of the ftp site, so can anyone give me a clue as to where it might
> be?
>
> Why on earth can't they put together some basic packages and clearly
> label them?:
>
> 1. minimal system install
> 2. full system install
> 3. full system + Xwindows install
> 4. all the other stuff you might need or want thrown in a box
>
> Do they really think that someone wanting to install Linux might not want
> the man pages? Is that why they are off in some other corner of the web
> site? I can accept the argument, "Linux is difficult to install." I can
> also accept the argument that, "Linux is difficult to learn." But I find
> it hard to accept the argument that, "Because they're Linux files, it is
> difficult to clearly organize and label them on the ftp site."
>
> Thanks for letting me blow off steam. And TIA for helping me make sense
> out of this gibberish.
>
> David Kachel
>
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