Hello, I have just installed debian from cdrom (infomagic), and some of my favorite packages, available on Red Hat, are missing from the Debian distribution. These packages (netpbm , xv) are in the non-free subdirectory of packages in www.debian.org, but in the distributions available on cdroms ( I checked other cdroms).
I understand there may be restrictions on distributions of some packages, but if others can include it why cannot Debian? Debian seems to have the larger of packages than other distributions but they are missing some rather basic packages? By the way, I found that one advantage of Debian over Red Hat, is that one does not have to get X11 up before installing packages. In Red Hat, the primary package installer is glint which depends on X11. If one can't get X11 running, one may have lots of work. King Lee ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
