On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 07:54:21PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > On 8/2/10 7:06 PM, juan gonzalez wrote: > > all right, I have 2 questions. can I use .deb files on the the teminal > > version? and can I upgrade from the terminal one to the desktop one? > > and how? > > > > > > > Yes; if you just have a .deb (say, "whatever.deb"), you can install it > with "dpkg -i whatever.deb". > > However, as a general rule, you don't want to install .deb files > directly, because if whatever.deb is dependent on whatsit.deb which is > dependent on yeah_but.deb, etc etc, then it could quickly become painful > to install a program. > > Instead, you want to use aptitude (or apt-get) to install a program. In > this case, it'd probably be "aptitude install whatever", which will > automagically install whatever and whatsit and yeah_but and whatever > else might be needed. > > You can also run a curses-based (text-based) point-and-click style > interface of aptitude by just running "aptitude", but honestly, that > confuses me more than just using the command-line mode of aptitude. > I like the interactive curses-based aptitude, but I was confused by it at first. Here are some hints in case you decide to try it:
u update the package list + mark a package for installation - mark a package for uninstallation g "go" and install/uninstall the marked packages _ purge a package ctrl-u undo <enter> expand/collapse a menu/category, or get details on a package q quit whatever mode you are in / search n when searching, find the next match N when searching, find the previous match and don't forget that you can use your mouse to access the menus. I'm not sure if that requires an x-server or not, though. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100803214746.gb1...@aurora.owens.net
