Adam Martin, 2003-08-04 20:29:34 +1200: > I have just finished installing a basic installation of debian. > However being very (very very) new, I have not had any success in > getting apt-get to go.
> I want to install Mysql, however any apt-get commands I get simply > state that it van not find the package. > [...snipped sources.list file...] Hi Adam, Which package(s) are you asking apt to get, exactly? As far as I can tell (without ever having installed MySQL myself), there is no debian package called 'mysql'. I can get a list of likely packages though: $ apt-cache search mysql To narrow that down to packages whose names start with 'mysql': $ apt-cache search --names-only ^mysql Which gives a short list of 6 packages: mysql-client - mysql database client binaries mysql-common - mysql database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf) mysql-doc - mysql database documentation mysql-server - mysql database server binaries mysqltcl - Interface to the MySQL database for the Tcl language. mysql-navigator - GUI client program for MySQL database server And you can use... $ apt-cache show <package-name> ...to get a description of any package you're interested in. By the way - handy in a ~/.bashrc: alias acs='apt-cache search' alias acv='apt-cache show' I hope this helped, Tim -- Timothy Musson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~trmusson/
