Stephen R Laniel wrote:
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:36:02PM +0500, Fritz Brown wrote:I was logged into the system as root, and opened an xterm, then tried dpkg. That should work, if I ignore that "--install" stuff?I don't know why they were telling you to do dpkg -i | --install -i and --install are the same argument to dpkg. In other words,
In this case | means "or" not an output redirect ;) I know it's confusing, it should be dpkg [-i|--install] Angelo