On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Earl Brannigan wrote:
Last night I finally ditched a DeadRat 6.2 installation (needed cleaning up anyway) and moved to a debian potato installation (bargain from Linux Expo..... free beer as well!).
Congratulations!
1)loved the way apt can just plough through your CDs and catalogue all the packages (during the install), but how do you get it to do this in normal running (I thought I had the idea but ended up breaking apt!), ie I want it to now search through the rest of my catalogue of CDs.
Ok, debian's package management only works for debian archives/cds. You can edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list and add additional CDs if you want, or just use the net. I recommend the following lines:
# Stable deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/non-US stable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
# Testing Source deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/non-US testing non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
# Security deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
To tell apt it has new archives, use: apt-get update
2)Having broken apt by replacing the file:/file/binary/for/install/disk1 line with something that doesn't work is there a quick way to get it back. Or can I just tell apt to go search my CDs again (re: 1).
Again, edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file. The CD line should be something like:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
3)dselect is all very well but I would prefer a nice way to group say all X Packages together. Perhaps I'm missing something.
Tasks often do this for you. eg task-gnome-desktop, task-games.
4)Where is XConfigurator ?
In Debian r2.2, you are best off with XF86Setup.
Anyways, any thoughts, experiences or hints and tips to assist in making my transfer to the king of Distros as painless as possible much appreciated.
Ok, if you need more up-to-date software, grab the source from the testing archive and build it locally. Gives you the benefit of latest software on a rock-solid platform. Try:
apt-get -b source antiword
(assuming you've added the deb-src lines to sources.list)
Andrew.