On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 09:57:46AM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, David E. Scott wrote: > > > Tyson, > > I guess I'm just expressing frustration at not being able to master the > > installation process. > > Agreed, Debian dselect does a tremendous lot of work during the install > > process, and it's very infrequent that dependency or other warnings are > > issued during a Win95 product install. In the hands of a Debian expert, > > my future son-in-law, the process is pretty impressive and quick, even > > if it's rather mysterious when I try to duplicate the process on my own. > > Ok, let's summarize the differences between the install programs. The > Win95 installs have a simple design, are brain-dead and can present you > with nice 'Next' buttons. The Debian installer can perform complex tasks > but has a user interface that is hard to learn.
Let's compare like with like. To install a program on windows you double click it and then keep clicking on next. To install a program on Debian you type "dpkg -i filename". Dselect is not the installer, it is the package selection tool. It shows you a list of program which you have access to and can install. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
