Re: How to download a package?

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:54:42AM -0400, - wrote:
> This may seem like a stupid question but how do you download a Debian
> package?
> (Yes, I'm a really low level newbie)
>  My hangup concerns these preliminaries before performing a
> download.....
> 
>  1.   Should all downloads be done by  root user or can any user do it?
> 
>  2.   What directory should be set as the active directory in the
> command line?

To just install new things that come from the debian team, just
use the wonderful "apt-get" command (when logged in as user root)--

	apt-get install postgresql apache-perl ipmasq vim-rt

all of which depends on having /etc/apt/sources.list set up
properly, which you can do easily using

	apt-setup

if you've got it (try "apt-get install base-config" if you
don't).

For more, see my intro at

	http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html

> Am I tilting at windmills?

Could be. I can't answer that one, sorry. :)

-- 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #16 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>:
Why are *.rpm (RED HAT PACKAGES) considered spawn of Satan?
Because the Debian package system is a lot more sophisticated
than the one Red Hat uses; lots more inter-dependency information
is built in to a *.deb package. If you bypass that with an *.rpm
file, you're taking chances with your system. Try to "apt-get
install <debian-only>" packages if possible. (Also check out the
"alien" package if you must.)

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...