On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I am trying to install packages that came along with my Debian 2.0 CD > (which is from one of the image CD). The installation utility program > "dselect" confuses me with all the different screens. So I tried dpkg > and it worked fine...for starters. I want to findout what are the > different options that I can use with dpkg. dpkg -i xxx.deb installs > the pakage but is there a option to make it check for the dependent > pakages also and install them?
Use dpkg -I <package> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Starkes, Computing & Communications, Memorial University of Newfoundland. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~gstarkes/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
