*- On 31 Dec, Fish Smith wrote about "Re: Proposal: Source file package format " >>Big problem is getting guys like LSB to buy the .deb >>format. I haven't >>researched it, but even guys on the Red Hat list say >>it's better. > >>There are two really horrible things about Debian, >>though. 1) The >>dselect >>package handler. I'm speaking from Debian 2.1 here. >>It has a very >>primitive interface and is incredibly tedious. Maybe >>they're doing >>something different in potato. > > I don't use dselect. I manually download all the > packages and install and remove them with dpkg from > the command line. Works fine for me, although it is a > bit of a pain for packages with lots of dependencies > to look up and grab all of them individually. Still, > the interface I've found far easier than dselect. >
I love dselect. It just takes some getting used to. Have you tried apt-get yet(In the apt package)? It will save you the trouble of having to track down all the dependencies. Just 'apt-get install <package>' and it will download the package and all it's dependencies for you. Example for gnome-apt(I don't have any of the gnome stuff installed) # apt-get install gnome-apt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: esound gdk-imlib1 gnome-bin gnome-libs-data libart2 libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libzvt2 The following NEW packages will be installed: esound gdk-imlib1 gnome-apt gnome-bin gnome-libs-data libart2 libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libzvt2 0 packages upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded. Need to get 1289kB of archives. After unpacking 4247kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] That would have taken a full day to track down all those dependencies! Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
