[ale] installing debian packages

[Mazukna, Thomas]

Also install aptitude - this is very usefull util so search thoug the
list of packages available to apt-get. after system install is done
forget about dselect. 

Tomas

-----Original Message-----
From: Mazukna, Thomas 
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 11:04 AM
To: 'Wandered Inn'; ALE
Subject: RE: [ale] installing debian packages


dpkg -- for installing packages that you have downloaded by hand on your
machine.
   dpkg -i some_package.deb

apt-get --- for automating the process - downloads packages, checks
dependencies, 
            updates packages and much more. 
in /etc/apt/sources.list you list the hosts apt can download from then do
apt-get update
this will download the package descriptions available on each server listed
in sources 
file, the you can do :
apt-get install package_name
this will download the package and dependencies if required and install it
with couple 
prompts. The real nice feature is:
apt-get upgrade
this can upgrade with new packages, I use it for my unstable system to get
the latest
grates of everything... If you have only security updates box in the
sources.list
you can put in a cron job to pull you security updates and install them each
night 
automatically.

Tomas


-----Original Message-----
From: Wandered Inn [mailto:esoteric at denali.atlnet.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 9:52 AM
To: ALE
Subject: [ale] installing debian packages


Brand new to Debian, since it's the only thing that would successfully
load on a little 486 laptop I've got.  I'm trying to install a .deb
package on a machine.  My expectation was that I could execute something
like:

INSTALLPKG package.deb

yet I can't find anything that will let me do that.  dselect is really
ugly and 'apt install' apparently has to have some knowledge of the
package in an existing database.

Looking for the Debian version of:

rpm -ihv package.rpm

Pointers would be appreciated.

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