On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:38:57PM -0800, wells wrote: > So I have been running Debian for a month now after jumping ship from Red > Hat and I'm trying to devise a solid method of maintaining my system. > > What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling from > source? > > Moreover, what's the difference? I see apt-get, dselect, dpkg-- what do > these do and how are they different? > > Opinions, thoughts, insights, methodologies appreciated.
apt-get are apt-cache are shell interface to APT dselect is matured menu driven interface to APT. aptitude... are new ones. We tend to use apt-get as the main command for the reply in this mailing list since it is easy to describe but in reality we use fair amount od dselect invocations. Oh, "apt-howto" is good reading point for APT basics. "Debian reference" (I used to call this "Quick reference for ...") below shall be also of some help. Also be sure to check install manual and release notes. All these can be reached from: http://www.debian.org/doc http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D Visit Debian reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ There are 6 files: index.{en|fr|it}.html quick-reference.{en|fr|it}.txt I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
