> begin Jay Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I just installed debian (again and again...). > > why would you install it more than once? >
When I installed from cd (an old one) X didn't work, when I did it from the net it works (but I may have chose different setting) > > I was reading about dselect, > > but its not on my system, > > hard to believe. i hope this isn't an insulting question, but what > makes you think it's not on your system? > :) I thought you meant my question was insulting. When I'd type "dselect", I'd get command not found. I rebooted (after installing perl (unstable)) and now it's there, I don't get it > > I did a apt-cache search dselect but there is no > > package called that. > > sounds like you should read www.dirac.org/linux/debian. > Going to read it now > satan# dpkg -S dselect > dpkg: /usr/bin/dselect > dpkg: /usr/share/man/sv/man8/dselect.8.gz > perl: /usr/bin/podselect > perl: /usr/share/man/man1/podselect.1.gz > dpkg: /usr/share/man/man8/dselect.8.gz > base-config: /usr/lib/base-config/60dselect > dpkg: /usr/share/man/ja/man8/dselect.8.gz > dpkg: /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg > > dselect is provided by dpkg. if THAT'S not on your system, well, you > must have burned suse on your debian disks by accident. > > i'd recommend against using dselect anyhow. dpkt/apt are a good combo. I'll use apt, but how do I find out which tree (stable, testing, unstable) dist a specific version of software exists? For example I wanted to install Perl 5.6.1. So I had to add the unstable to my sources.list, then update, then search: apt-cache search Perl-5., install, remove unstable, update. I'm sure there's a better way. > > pete > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
