On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:22:48PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: > Run "dselect" as root. This will allow you to search through available > packages, and install/remove them from your system. Edit > /etc/apt/sources.list to add new package sources (e.g. to upgrade from > potato to woody). > > dselect is largely self-documenting. >
If you're running woody or sid, then try console-apt and/or aptitude. They feel nicer than dselect, IMHO. (I hate how return is the key to accept the current selection of packages in dselect, esp. given how long it takes to crunch through the dep checking. I sometimes press return by mistake...) Aside from dselect, debfoster is nice for letting you figure out how to get rid of unneeded packages stuff used to depend on. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
