[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am very new to Debian, and linux in general. I installed hamm, base12 >this afternoon, and tried to install GNOME with it but when I told the >install to get the packages from the floppies where I had copied the files >I downloaded from GNOME's ftp site it said there were no packages there? What exactly did you download? Debian packages have names ending in .deb and are usually to be found on a Debian mirror (though some upstream sites publish .debs) If you have some .deb files, you can install them with the command `dpkg -i package1.deb package2.deb ...' (which you have to run as root).
dselect needs a Packages file describing what is on the media you are installing from. >Also.. I was told by someone in an irc.debian.org channel that the dir >command worked in Debian, but it doesn't work for me. dir is in the fileutils packge, which is an essential package. Try the command `/bin/dir'. If that works, the problem is that your search path is set wrong. If it doesn't, run `dpkg --status fileutils' - the output should contain a line like this: Status: install ok installed ____________ If it is not `ok installed', you have not managed to complete the installation of your base system properly. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 ======================================== "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Be thankful unto him, and bless his name." Psalms 100:4