patricia campbell wrote: > I'm more familiar with fedora/redhat but I believe aptitude will take > care of the dependencies provided you have the repositories in > /etc/apt/sources.list it will squak if it can't find them. Apt is very similar to yum in terms of solving dependencies and so on, you really don't even need to think about what is being installed, the hardest part is finding the right meta-package to install, but this is not too bad with search tools and so on. Apt will do all the post-config stuff, it really is pretty smart. Trust the debian force young jedis.
There is nothing to add to sources.list as long as you are not trying to install third-party or unsupported packages. You may occasionally need to allow non-free software, but only if you hate freedom (or if you like having mp3 encoding in ffmpeg for instance) :) This is a good resource if you have questions http://wiki.debian.org/Apt Jeremy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
