On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:51:07PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | Hi, | | Situation: | I did a bare installation of Debian on my computer. In other words, when | the Debian installation asked me which kinds of packages I wanted to install | on my hard drive, I didn't select anything. To clarify, I'm talking about | the utility that runs after the user selects the "Simple" package | installation option. | | Question: | What I'd like to do is run that package installation program again so I can | install all the HOWTOs, Info, faqs, etc. docs on the hard drive in one fell | swoop. How do I run this utility?
That utility is called "dselect". You can use it or any of the other apt programs or frontends. "apt-get", "aptitude" and "console-apt" come to mind. Try them out and pick the one you like the best. (apt-get is a command-line tool, the others are curses based). HTH, -D
