Re: [parisc-linux] dev-packages

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:25:33PM +0800, Andrew Shugg wrote:
> Quoth Bjoern A. Zeeb:
> > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > They're all available in the debian archive.  I don't think we have
> > > plans to produce any more CDs until the Debian Woody release (probably
> > > December).
> > 
> > Could you point me to some URL (incl. subdir) please ?
> 
> If you've got apt configured (/etc/apt/apt.conf, /etc/apt/sources.list)
> then you don't need to worry about finding things directly.  After doing
> an 'apt-get update' to fetch the current Packages files and rebuild the
> local package database, you can say 'apt-cache search foo' and it will
> show you all the packages called foo or with foo in their description.
> A simple 'apt-get install foo-dev' will download and install the foo-dev
> package and any other package it may require according to its
> dependencies.

If for some reason you do want to find things directly, you should
be aware that pkgs live in a pool now, and you wont find much under
a sid/main/binary-hppa dir on your local mirror.  For example, libc6-dev
would be found under /pub/mirrors/debian/pool/main/g/glibc.  That one
is under 'g' because the source pkg is glibc.  But as Andrew said, apt
is right way to install things normally.

Richard