Installed from floppies, now what?

1996-08-07 Thread Michael J. Cotherman
Maybe I am missing the obvious, but would someone please tell me where to find instructions on installing packages? I see dpkg and dselect mentioned, but when I use these commands, I feel that I am lost I do not have a distribution cd, nor do I want to purchase another set of disks that

Re: Installed from floppies, now what?

1996-08-07 Thread Graham Williams
I personally find dselect very confusing. I install all packages using just dpkg (dselect is a front-end to dpkg). It is actually very easy. The only thing that is more difficult is in manually dealing with dependencies between packages. The simplest thing to do is to identify any packages you