I have downloaded the linux base system from debian, and want to install some of the other packages, like man pages, gcc, emacs, etc. Simple stuff that I've used in Unix... But when I get the downloads onto my base system, I don't know what to do. The *.deb files are listed as executables, so I tried typing the file names... nothing ... I tried gzip to decompress them , but they're not gzip files... Any suggestions? What am I missing? There's no explaination on the debian website about installing packages.
-Thanks, Jason Draut, a new debian-linux user
