On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, pfau wrote: > hello, folks > > as I´m a debian newbie (coming from suse), may be the following > questions are stupid, but I got stuck with them. > > 1) Is there a way to install a deb-package which is not included in the > standard distribution.
dpkg -i <package(s).deb> > If I try to install a package that I downloaded from Internet, dselect > always asks me on some package.cd files to recognize the packages as > part of the distribution, which of course I cannot give, and so dselect > does not do the job; and alien does only work correct with small > packages (deb -> rpm -> install) without broken dependencies > > 2) where is the information stored, that debian starts with graphical > login? I want to finish boot process at the prompt, but debian always > starts his graphical login utility. Can this behaviour only be changed > by deinstalling the utility? No, you can also remove the symlink in the default /etc/rcX.d directory manually or via the "update-rc.d" command. /etc/inittab contains the default runlevel; if it is "2" (the default), then you will need to remove the S99?dm symlink in the /etc/rc2.d directory. - Bruce
