> I am afraid the process is not progressing very smoothly. I assume I am > supposed to use the "dselect" routine. Although I had troubles with it I > finally got the program to select only one file. (In this case, the "ed" > file) dselect is an interface for dpkg. The latter does the real job, dselect just makes life easier by checking for dependencies. For one file, use dpkg. The syntax is dpkg -i package-name.deb but you should read the man. > - Was it correct to get "dselect" to select only 1 file? No. See the solution above. > - What if the program I want to install isn't on the list in "dselect"? You can update the list of available packages if you use ftp for upgrading. Or you can use dpkg. > - The downloaded file doesn't have a .deb extension, why not? I don't know. Did it start out with the .deb extension? Use the program ftp for downloading, e.g. $ftp ftp.debian.org takes you to the debian ftp site (it's run by santanni). > - Is it ok to use Windows 95 to download and to save on a MS-DOS > formatted floppy? The only problem with it is that you can't transport files correctly (long filenames are not compatible unless you compiled the win95 filesystem to your kernel - I don't remember what its name was). > What I really need I think is to download the appropriate ftp software so > that I don't have to use Windows 95 as a middleman. Which software would > accomplish this? It should be there, it's called ftp.
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