Re: dselect?

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from J. Hannemann:
> 
> >   I find the debian tool dselect is too hard for me,
> > a debian newbie, :) .
> >   Is there any other tool that can do such the
> > things that dselect can 
> > do. If there is graphic tool, that would be better.
> 
> You can bypass dselect and use apt to install anything
> you want.  Make sure you choose "desktop environment"
> so you get X (graphical environment).
> 
> There is a GUI frontend for apt--synaptic.

There's also aptitude.  Others who know far more about it than me
recommend aptitude over the alternatives.

  apt-get update
  apt-get install aptitude
  aptitude update
  aptitude upgrade
  aptitude search something
  aptitude install blah


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