On 2004.03.04 09:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually, I'm not resistant to anything that will work. > ... Does anyone know of a site that already has the deb file created? >... > > Actually, I just did an apt-get install flow-tools and apt-get install > flowscan......I'll let you know if it works. > > > cleve
Atta-boy! Welcome to the wonderful world of Debian, where the packages are free and dependencies are satisfied at the mirror site. Here is the package: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/flowscan What you are looking at is the debian root mirror site for the unstable distro. The html representation is made from the packages themselves. All of the dependencies have links to other debian packages and apt pulls them. True, Contrib contains free packages that depend on non free programs that the non free might not be there. It sucks when that happens and that is why free software is so cool. Flowscan depends on flow-tools, so your second apt-get was happy when it saw flow-tools and all of it's dependencies already installed. The second apt-get just grabbed the rest of the dependencies. Kpackage or dselect would have done the same thing. I'm partial to dselect because it has vi style searches. Type "/" and it asks you what you want to look for. Dselect also does dependency and conflict resolution where you can see it and do something about it. Dselect is also nice enough to tell you how many packages and bytes your selection will pull, so you can abort if you don't have enough space. Kpackage has a nicer face, and may have other goodies, but I'm too lazy to learn now. Being able to install packages by ssh is great. Debian's package management system is one of it's greatest strengths. It is based on the Debian team's fierce dedication to using free software. With such a system, the drawbacks of EULA restrictions become glaringly obvious. A proprietary program might do A job better today, but what is that next to a free system like Debian? Anyone anywhere can run a Debian mirror. It's a fantastic system that manages to work almost all the time.
