[email protected] wrote: >On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:17:02AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: >> can anyone point me to a really good resource for how to use apt-get? >> >> NO NOT THE MAN PAGE PLEASE!!! please? >> >> in particular i'm running potato but i want some woody packages... > >Don't use apt-get for this (other than to mark the packages held so they >aren't updated behind your back). Grab the packages yourself from a >download site, and install them with dpkg. > >For information: man dpkg or 'dpkg --help'.
OK this answers my first question and i do appreciate it. which leaves with the second issue of installing and configuring apache/php on debian potato. in 2 days time some friends and i are sitting down to configure some servers for our own use. we know how to get things running under linux-for-dummies (mandrake) and will if we have to. but if someone could point me at the resources for doing this in debian (i have a full potato CD set) or walk me slowly through it. i would appreciate it. Regards, John
