Re: How to download a package?
I have also wondered on downloading as root, does this
leave us open security wise? Dean
----- Original Message -----
From: "will trillich" <will@serensoft.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: How to download a package?
> 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/ ...
>
>
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