On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote: > At 11:06 AM 12/10/1998 -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 06:32:51PM +0000, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > > >(Original Subject: RE: Debian very slow to get latest releases?) > > > >> I can't even beigin to understand apt-get. > > > >Then you haven't tried very hard. :-) It's dirt simple and you can > >see examples at > > Just in defense of Phillip and other newbies; it may be dirt simple, but > when you're trying to learn a whole new paradigm full of gazillions of > dirt-simple things, each molehill seems like a large hill (a mountain might > seem unsurpassable, whereas we newbies know we'll eventually get things > sorted out).
You know there is an APT users guide. It used to be in the package but seems to have gone missing of late. http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt/dpc/guide.html It might serve as a nice introduction to what is happening and what it all means. Jason
