Ok
Apt-get is awesome.  Dselect is awesome.  Debian does it right.

I was able to use the Storm CD to get netscape and helix-gnome.  So If you
have a storm CD you can get anything Storm has.  Of course it Helix has
the Storm logo and such but I don't care.  Here's how I did it.

apt-cdrom -f add cdrom

It ask for a name for the CD so I put "Storm" in and it found all of the
deb packages on the CD.  From that point I was able to apt-get update and
then apt-get install netscape.

I would recommend anyone who's used Linux for a while to give Debian a
try.  I switched and am Loving it.

It's funny how someone on linuxtoday said rpm's need an apt
command.  Well after playing around with deb's for a while now I think
it's a much better package manager than rpm's.  Dselect will tell you if
there is a dependency problem.  I like the way if it need's a dependent
package it will install it.  If there is a conflict with another program
it will let you know.  If it were an rpm you would have to search for the
dependent rpm install them before the program would work.  Apt-get does it
all for you. 


Tim

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