linux newbie

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Aug 26 00:13:04 UTC 2005


Hakim Singhji wrote:

> On 8/25/05, Jesper Krogh <jesper at krogh.cc> wrote:
>>  Delete them, start synaptic and install the applications using the
>>  package manager.
> 
> Don't delete... you have done so much work downloading... plus its
> good practice to use console... get to know your OS.
> 
> $ man dpkg

You'll do a _whole_ lot more work trying to install all of those packages,
in the right order, with dpkg than you would with apt.  Besides which the
"get to know your OS" argument is a complete red herring, as you could use
any number of tools, at least two of them in the console, to do the same
thing with apt.

If you insist on using dpkg, use dpkg -i *, it'll surely fail the first
time, but if you have all the right apt repositories configured, then
"apt-get -f install" should fix the rest.
-- 
derek





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