From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lcollins Subject: Re: new to Debian Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:21:27 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021125102127.A1302@linux> References: <20021123070206.A1156@linux> <5.1.0.14.1.20021123084809.02141030@celine> <20021123075444.B1156@linux> <20021125060508.GA3215@softhome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021125060508.GA3215@softhome.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs