* new to Debian
@ 2002-11-23 12:02 lcollins
2002-11-23 16:49 ` Ray Olszewski
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From: lcollins @ 2002-11-23 12:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-newbie
I am new to Debian and just installed Debian Woody. What program do I
use to view which programs are available for installation on my 7 cd
installation set with a brief discription of each. My SuSE has Yast2
for this purpose. There must be something similar in Debian.
thanks
backwoods
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* Re: new to Debian
2002-11-23 12:02 new to Debian lcollins
@ 2002-11-23 16:49 ` Ray Olszewski
2002-11-23 12:54 ` lcollins
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From: Ray Olszewski @ 2002-11-23 16:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-newbie
At 07:02 AM 11/23/02 -0500, lcollins wrote:
>I am new to Debian and just installed Debian Woody. What program do I
>use to view which programs are available for installation on my 7 cd
>installation set with a brief discription of each. My SuSE has Yast2
>for this purpose. There must be something similar in Debian.
dselect is the standard Debian package manager for CD installs. I
don't use SuSE so don't know if this is sufficiently similar to Yast2 to
satisfy your needs.
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* Re: new to Debian
2002-11-23 16:49 ` Ray Olszewski
@ 2002-11-23 12:54 ` lcollins
2002-11-25 6:05 ` Joshua Lee
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From: lcollins @ 2002-11-23 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-newbie
Looks like that's what I'm looking for. Thanks
Ray Olszewski previously wrote:
> dselect is the standard Debian package manager for CD installs. I
> don't use SuSE so don't know if this is sufficiently similar to Yast2 to
> satisfy your needs.
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* Re: new to Debian
2002-11-23 12:54 ` lcollins
@ 2002-11-25 6:05 ` Joshua Lee
2002-11-25 15:21 ` lcollins
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From: Joshua Lee @ 2002-11-25 6:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: lcollins; +Cc: linux-newbie
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:54:44AM -0500, lcollins wrote:
> Looks like that's what I'm looking for. Thanks
>
> Ray Olszewski previously wrote:
> > dselect is the standard Debian package manager for CD installs. I
Dselect is useful but it has a very odd interface. Aptitude is somewhat
more friendly and does some of the same things, though it doesnt have
all of dselect's features, I used to use it until I got more used to
dselect. For apt-get there is a GUI front-end synaptic you might also
want to take a look at, though I like to use apt-cache to search and
then apt-get to install, since apt-get is quite easy to use.
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* Re: new to Debian
2002-11-25 6:05 ` Joshua Lee
@ 2002-11-25 15:21 ` lcollins
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From: lcollins @ 2002-11-25 15:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-newbie
Thanks Josh I will give each of these a try and see what works best for
me.
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:54:44AM -0500, lcollins wrote:
> > Looks like that's what I'm looking for. Thanks
> >
> > Ray Olszewski previously wrote:
> > > dselect is the standard Debian package manager for CD installs. I
Joshua Lee previously wrote:
> Dselect is useful but it has a very odd interface. Aptitude is somewhat
> more friendly and does some of the same things, though it doesnt have
> all of dselect's features, I used to use it until I got more used to
> dselect. For apt-get there is a GUI front-end synaptic you might also
> want to take a look at, though I like to use apt-cache to search and
> then apt-get to install, since apt-get is quite easy to use.
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