dselect ignorance
I don't understand dselect. I have checked my O'Reilly Debian book and
the lists of HOWTO's and am no wiser. If I have missed a source of
basic information, please point me at it.
Otherwise, my question is this: If I find an xxx.deb package at some
site other than the debian stable distribution and wish to use it how
should I proceed? Download it? Put it where? Simply run dpkg install
xxx.deb? Edit sources.list and use apt-get install xxx.deb? Or is
dselect the preferred method to best manage dependencies? If dselect is
best, do I somehow bypass the many location questions?
At present my system is pure Debian 3.0 with kernel 2.4.18 and if I
install packages from other than the stable distribution I would like to
follow best practices.
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