Re: whereis Mozilla 1.4 .deb (Update)
--- Vineet Kumar <debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net> escribió:
> * William Bradley (bradleyw@magma.ca) [030914 18:44]:
> > Thank you to everyone who responded to the above. So far I have simply
> > downloaded the deb file and haven't an idea how to install it. Been playing
>
> > with dpkg and dselect but it still sits there doing nothing.
> >
> > Subsequent messages have shown me how to get and install it online but I
> would
> > still like to know how to do it as a package on the system.
>
> Let me guess ... an ex-redhat user? ;-)
>
> To install a deb that sits on your filesystem, you can use
> 'dpkg -i filename.deb'. You hardly ever do that on a debian system,
> though (unless you're compiling your own debs, for example a kernel
> package or something).
>
> Generally, you use a frontend to manage package selection from a proper
> package repository, be that on an http server somewhere (like an online
> debian mirror) or a cdrom, or a mix of a few of those. This way, you
> get a number of advantages. First, you don't have to go hunting for the
> package to download. You let apt fetch it for you. Second, you don't
> have to worry about dependencies. I remember from my redhat days (the
> bad old days) spending lots of time downloading rpms and trying to
> install them, only to find out I needed to download yet more rpms, which
> in turn depended on yet other rpms. This "rpm hell" was one of the
> biggest reasons I switched to debian. Debian's package management tools
> are way ahead of anything redhat uses, and they take care of all of the
> dependencies for you. (Of course, this is really a feature of the
> well-maintained packages in the distribution rather than of the package
> management tools themselves.)
>
http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/
APT is available to RedHat (and other RPM-based distro) users, just many people
don't know about it.
-Roberto
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