Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

[Casey Webster <casey@trifocus.net>]

if they are .deb's, you can 

dpkg -i package.deb

as for yur browser,

apt-get install communicator-smotif-476
apt-get install mozilla
apt-get install lynx

pick the one you like best.

-Casey

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:03:15AM -0200, hzi wrote:
> Good people of the community-
> 
>     Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users when they made dselect?
>     I simply can't understand why it doesn't accept a simple path (e.g., /cdrom/debian/potato) to some files I burned on a CD! Is there any easy way? Any documentation?
>     It seems irrational that developers didn't make it accept a simple path to files...I can't install a browser in Debian, so here I am, using Windows...
>     Somebody help!!
> 
>     Thanks 
>     Henry
>     
> 
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