On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 23:57, fti International wrote: > What is the command that you can type at shell to invoke > the program that presents you the option of choosing > Simple and Advanced installation methods for packages? > > I know "apt-setup" and "modconf" will do apt and moudle > (re)congfiguratons, so I guess there should be a program to > do what I mentioned above. I am having trouble w/ package > installations!!
OK here is the deal. If what you are talking about is the question during the install about which method of package selection you want to use, that selection is not stored anywhere. All it does is invoke tasksel for simple and dselect for advanced. I would tell you to run tasksel, but that is really only useful for the install time. Once you select the tasks you want from tasksel you must you another frontend to APT and dpkg. Some of these are apt-get and friends, dselect, aptitude, and gnome-apt. These are just a few. I know there are many more. I personally use apt-get and friends. They are simple command line tools that are truly easier to use than any of the gui apps that are out there. If you want to see if something is in the archive just do an apt-cache search <key-word> and then once you find the package do an apt-get install <package-name> Also upgrades are simple. All you need is apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade (I recommend always using the dist-upgrade instead of upgrade when tracking stable. It handles dependencies better.) As usually YMMV, but I would try out a few and see which one you are most comfortable with and stick with it. I hope I helped you some. -- -Peace kid Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "God's the ultimate playa, so naturally He's going to have some haters," rapper Ice Cube said. "But these haters need to realize that if you mess with the man upstairs, you will get your ass smote. True dat." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
