David, I am familiar with both apt-get and aptitude, I really never use aptitude but in this case it worked well. Basically what I wanted to know was how to get libcurl installed automatically with all its dependencies, installing php5-curl was the route i was looking for!
thanks! On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Montminy <[email protected]>wrote: > Since severals good answers have already been given, let me give you a > couple of references instead... > > For apt-get and aptitude, I suggest you read (and bookmark for future > reference): > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html > http://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude > > If you already know your way around another distribution, this could > also help: > > http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=package-management > > it's a table comparing the different package-manager in several Linux > distributions... > > Good luck > > David Montminy > > Denny Stamos wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I dont often ask for help so I hope someone can help me out here, im not > > sure how to go about this. > > > > I have a Joomla module that needs cURL php extension (libcurl). Now > > there are a bunch of dependencies and I would like to know how I go > > about installing > > them using apt-get. > > > > My box is a Debian 5.0 Lenny. Ive done a apt-get upgrade, so i am updated > > > > Here is the page to the package and its > > dependencies. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libcurl3 > > > > how do I go about installing all those dependencies ? > > Can I do it with apt-get ? > > Is there some kind of core package that i can install via apt-get that > > will include all dependencies? > > Or do I have to get each package and install manually with dpkg ? > > > > > > thanks! > > > > Denny > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mlug mailing list > > [email protected] > > > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >
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