On Monday 29 March 2004 21.53, mehdi wrote: > Hi > > I am new to debian but not to UNIX. I `ve been using HPUX unix (only > as a user) for few years. There are some question for me and I be > glade If anyone can help me on that. > > 1- Where does the third party software (such as GNU softwares) are > installed in debian systems ? Is it /usr/local or /usr/? Self-compiled stuff should go to /usr/local. Note that you will find most software is already packaged in Debian. > > 2- Where can I found pre-compiled software for debian it seems all > the software comes with the disks are very old one? I am looking for > MYSQL. and latest gcc and perl and some other GNU stuff. You'll need to make yourself familiar with the packaging system of Debian. Read the man pages of - apt-get (most important commands: apt-get update, apt-get install, apt-get upgrade, apt-get remove) - apt-cache (very useful: apt-cache search, apt-cache policy) - sources.list (this is the main configuration file of the packaging system: /etc/apt/sources.list) - apt_preferences (this is a bit more advanced, but very useful if you want to upgrade as little as possible, but still conveniently install newer software packages through the package management system). The apt-dpkg-ref package contains a very useful short reference sheet, describing the most important commands. Do 'apt-get install apt-dpkg-ref' and then look at '/usr/share/doc/apt-dpkg-ref'. Also, make sure you learn about how Debian is organized, I mean: Debian stable (currently woody, or Debian 3.0), Debian testing (currently sarge), and Debian unstable (sid). I guess a bit of googling or browsing around on the Debian web site should clear this up. /usr/share/doc/<...> is generally worth looking at. You'll find Debian-specific information about the packages in the README.Debian file and the NEWS.Debian file, both are often very important to read. apt-listchanges is a very useful package to have installed, too: it displays the changes in packages when you upgrade software packages. > 3- Is there any information on how I can package binary on debian? I > used to build depot for HPUX. The Debian New Maintainers' Guide was pointed out. But again: when you want to install software that is publicly available, there is a very good chance that you don't have to make a package yourself. cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/subkeys
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