On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:36:02PM +0500, Fritz Brown wrote: > I was logged into the system as root, and opened an xterm, then tried dpkg. > That should work, if I ignore that "--install" stuff?
I don't know why they were telling you to do dpkg -i | --install -i and --install are the same argument to dpkg. In other words, dpkg -i 'some package' is the same as dpkg --install 'some package' So to recap: 1) If you're downloading a package from the web and installing it -- say, Opera -- you'd do sudo dpkg --install [.deb filename] 2) If you're installing a package that's part of Debian, you can do sudo apt-get install [package name] 3) You want to use sudo rather than running commands as root. Really. It's much safer. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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