On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 10:22:39PM +0200, HawkY wrote: :Hi! : :I'm new to Debian and to Linux too. (I've just (tried to) installed Debian :Potato next to a Win2k.) And I have questions: : :How can I get a list of my installed packages. ( dpkg ???)
This is rarely necissary, but if you want to use "dpkg --get-selections | more" ( the "| more" send the output of the firts command to the "more" program that shows it one screen at a time) If you have Xwindows working (BIG if :), gnome-apt is a nice GUI for package management if you're new to it. There's also console-apt, which I've never used. You'd probably need to install these. dselect is the old way, it's console based and to my mind tortureous. :Does this command list the packages I've installed with mc? How do you install packages with mc? :How can I install a bunch of packages with one single command? (I want to :install gnome, but I don't really know the package dependencies.) the basic format is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get install <package-name> This will check dependencies and install them too, after giving you a chance to decline (for exmple 300M of dependencies over 56k dial up) :Is there a book I can get from the net that describes Debian? (If it is :free... :o) ) There's lots of good online info, unfortunately I don't have URL's handy. Hopefully someone else does, if not email me off the list and I'll dig around for 'ya -Jon
