blatent self promotion: apt/dpkg beginner guide

[Adam Shand]

hey.

one of the recent debianplanet articles prompted me to tidy up an email
i've had as an on going work for a couple years.  basically everytime i
convince some one to give debian a try and i have a little cheat sheet i
mail to them to help them get started.

it's got useful basic dpkg and apt commands as well as some other more
advanced commands that come in hand later.

if anyone is interested please take a look at:

http://www.spack.org/geek/apt-help.html

comments/corrections/etc are of course appreciated.

thanks,
adam.

RE: blatent self promotion: apt/dpkg beginner guide

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

/var/lib/dpkg/info
  location of the package maintainer scripts (postinst, prerm, etc) as well as
  other pieces of packaging data like md5sums, conffile lists, etc.

auto-apt
  useful tool, play with it and document it here

your data on dpkg --set-selections is wrong:
sudo dpkg --set-selections hold foo
dpkg: --set-selections does not take any argument

proper call is:
dpkg --set-selectionsenter
foo holdenter
Ctrl-D

or maybe echo foo hold | dpkg --set-selections.

RE: blatent self promotion: apt/dpkg beginner guide

[Adam Shand]

i've updated the list with your corrections and suggestions.  thanks for
the input.

adam.

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

 /var/lib/dpkg/info
   location of the package maintainer scripts (postinst, prerm, etc) as well as
   other pieces of packaging data like md5sums, conffile lists, etc.
 
 auto-apt
   useful tool, play with it and document it here
 
 your data on dpkg --set-selections is wrong:
 sudo dpkg --set-selections hold foo
 dpkg: --set-selections does not take any argument
 
 proper call is:
 dpkg --set-selectionsenter
 foo holdenter
 Ctrl-D
 
 or maybe echo foo hold | dpkg --set-selections.
 
 
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