On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 01:06:06PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
.........snip........
> >
> http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html
> man dpkg
> dpkg --help
>
> Easy to miss given that much of the introductory documentation focuses
> on high-level package management tools.
> I find a useful approach is to forget about "remembering how to do
> things" and focus on learning "what is possible". If you know what is
> possible it's relatively simple to find out how. :-)
Agreed. The problem in this case is that nothing pointed me to dpkg. I'm
used to working with apt and aptitude and tend to forget they're front
ends for dpkg.
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