Damon Fasching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi,
Hi, To complete Chris's answer, if you want to know which Debian binary packages to install in order to get the same things as if you had installed from the source, you may want to something like: grep-available -enF Source -s Package '^python2\.1$' (this requires the grep-dctrl package) In Debian, source packages are often broken into several binary packages. This is a good thing. This lets you install what you need and no (or at least not much) more. For instance, upstream xfree86 is composed of many components like xdm, fonts, xnest, etc. that you don't necessarily want to install on every machine. Installing only some of them is possible and easy to do because the xfree86 source package is split into a bunch of binary packages. Same with python and many others. -- Florent