Lachlan Patrick wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for LaTeX or alsaplayer. > Anyone have any idea which Debian 3.1r1 CD > these packages might be on? > > Loki >
Thanks to all who replied. One other question: is there an up-to-date Printing How-To somewhere? I need to get my HP non-postscript inkjet working. FYI: I sent an email a week or two ago to this list which was somewhat wordy but did explain that I need CDs specifically. But I got no replies, probably because it was too wordy, so I decided next time to send a much shorter, more direct set of questions. Sorry for the lack of context that time around! For those curious about why I need CDs... here's the wordy explanation. My Debian machine is at home. It's not on the net, so I needed to install from CD. I'm typing this email from my work PC, which I can't mess with, so I don't have Debian installed on it, so I can't directly use aptitude to download packages. I'm not a Debian guru; I just prefer the environ- ment to Windows. In my spare time, I've written a novel on it, using vi, LaTeX, ps2pdf (and python). But much of my hardware didn't work, e.g. I wanted to use the CD-drive to do scheduled backups, and to be able to print, but I was using an ancient version of Debian which didn't have all the drivers or kernel modules. So I was stuck with a dual-boot Windows solution, which was not ideal. I'd rather not need to boot into Windows ever! I decided to freshly install a more recent version of Debian. So, I downloaded ISO images, and just created the first 2 Debian CDs. This proved to be more than adequate to install a functional base desktop system in under 2GB of disk, but a few things were still missing. I didn't want to create all of the other 12 CDs just to get a few packages, so I thought I'd ask what CDs they are on. Although I can use the web at work to discover package dependencies, I didn't know how to discover which CDs those packages are on. In my case, the answer seems to be disk 3, and the link http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#search lets you search for specific files. So I now have a two stage process I can use to find all the dependencies, then find the CDs they are on. (Since my PC's apt database only knows about the first two CDs which it has been exposed to, it had no way of telling me to insert CD 3 when I want LaTeX. Indeed, there was no way inside aptitude to select LaTeX... it's not listed yet.) I didn't know this online search facility existed, so I think that will solve my problems. Thank you to one and all, and I hope this has satisfied any curiosity. Loki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
