On Tuesday 08 October 2002 12:36, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm a newbie in this debian world so please be patient with me. > I'm trying to undestand everything about debian before I can install them > and I was hoping that some one can answer my question. > It seems that debian has three ways to install packages. > 1) dpkg > 2) apt > 3) dselect > > My question is, when I first install the debian system, it scanned several > cds to update it's database for apt. If I start using apt, will it know > which cd to get the packages from? Will it also take care of any > dependencies that it may have? For example, if I installed the apache > webserver or the gnome desktop, will it install the appropritate packages > that it needs for it to run? >
dpkg is the underlying package interface. Everything else calls it. apt is a program which knows where packages are and how to get them. dselect is a visual representation of the package list and also provides an easier way to handle depends/conflicts/etc. It uses apt for the downloading/retrieving and apt in turn uses dpkg to actually install the software. As long as the cd is listed in /etc/apt/sources.list and you run 'apt-get update' apt should be able to install off of the cd and to ensure the proper depends are installed and handled. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]