new to Debian

new to Debian

[lcollins]

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

[lcollins]

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

[Ray Olszewski]

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

[Joshua Lee]

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

[lcollins]

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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