Symbolic links are, you would never guess it: links, for example you can make a a symbolic link by: `ln -s /var/www/cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin` (if you now cd to /var/www/cgi-bin you find yourself in /usr/lib/cgi-bin).
That about devel being 150MB is that devel is not just one package, but a profile containing a lot of packages. On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, David Pilz wrote: > I am about to install linux for the first time, and am having a few > problems: what are the symbolic links for? what do they do? They are not > being downloaded to my computer when I download the packages. Do I need > them? Also, the file sizes specified for the packages are relatively > small - 3 Kb, 4 Kb, etc., but when I download the packages they turn out > to be larger - 3 Mb, 4 Mb, and devel was about 150 Mb. Why is this? Any > help would be appreciated. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
