Install Real?]

Avraham Hanadari rufus at hanadari.net
Wed Apr 19 02:57:14 UTC 2006


Peter Garrett wrote:

>  For more than you ever wanted to know about apt:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html
> 
> Or you can type
> 
> apt-cache search apt-howto
> 
> and choose a language version to install - for instance
> 
> sudo apt-get install apt-howto-en 
> 
> Derek will tell you to use " sudo aptitude install apt-howto-en " (which
> does the same thing, but smarter)   ;-)
> 
> Once it installs, typing
> 
> apt-howto
> 
> in a terminal will open the document ( the same as the document in the URL
> I gave above) for you in a browser ( firefox by default in Ubuntu )
> 
> Then bookmark the document in your browser, either way, and you can refer
> to it for specific help on using apt. If you install the package as above,
> it will always be available to you locally, even off-line, of course.
> 
> Peter
> 

Thanks. That is indeed a lot of material. I went the terminal way, and 
bookmarked it in FF.

Avraham




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