Hello, I recently installed slink on a new SCSI disk for my dual oc 450 MHz Celeron machine. (suse 6.2 is already on an IDE disk).
Since I'm new to .deb-based systems I would like to ask a few questions: (I have been running RedHat since 5.0 up to 6.1 and rawhide, mandrake 6.1 and suse 6.2 on different machines, but all of them are rpm-based) I need to upgrade to a kernel supporting dual CPUs and also to XFree86-3.3.5 to get support for my TNT2-based graphics card. 1. What is the name of the kernel package: dpkg --list only gives kernel-headers and kernel-source. 2. Which command to use for kernel upgrade? 3. Which tools to use, apt, dselect and/or dpkg? 4. Which tool correspond to rpm and yast? 5. I installed the scientific workstation, thereby missing the install of eg. gnome. I want to run Windowmaker/Enlightenment and gnome. What to do? 6. How can I get a comprehensive listing of the packages installed on my computer? 7. How can I easily get rid of the unwanted ones? 8. apt-get upgrade + apt-get dist-upgrade ends with some files not found. The suggested fix was to add --fix-missing. How can I update the missing parts or remove the no longer supported packages. 9. dselect interface and beginners guide are not informative enough to guide you to an upgrade easily. 10. dselect is confusing with its immediate help screen if something is not OK. (The reason for all this effort is the delay of the 2.2 release. I will gladly purchase potato when it arrives, but I feel a need to start learning debian-based distributions as well. I have the corel distribution newly burnt but not installed it yet.) Hoping to be as fluent in .deb as in .rpm Svante Signell
