On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:51:25AM -0400, alex wrote:
| Thanks, Derek and Osamu, good info.
|
| I must have phrased my questions poorly. What I was really asking for
| was an explanation of the mechanics of installing a package and its
| related packages and where to put them.
The answer to that is
apt-get update
apt-get install <foo>
| How would it done if there wasn't something like apt to do it for
| you and you had to do it yourself?
Well, that is _almost_ like asking how to install an 'rpm' package on
RH without having the 'rpm' program around. Almost.
On debian, 'dpkg -i' works like 'rpm -i' or 'rpm -U' on RH. You can
tell dpkg to install a certain package, and it will complain if the
dependencies aren't met. Then you go back to
http://packages.debian.org and download the deps and install them.
Repeat as necessary (as you would for an rpm-based system).
HTH,
-D
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