some apt help....
Matt Graham
linux at bizniche.com
Wed Jul 2 04:05:16 CDT 2003
Dang.that first one was supposed to come from me. Sorry about that.
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I'm new at debian, and new a using apt-get.
So, I'm wanting to install something like php for my little webserver.
I've been reading up on the APT-HOWTO on debian.org. I did:
apt-get update
apt-cache search php
Woa.so there are so many choices. Not knowing what to pick, I choose
php4. so I run:
apt-get install php4
Here is the output:
jack:~# apt-get install php4
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libbz2-1.0 libmm11
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libbz2-1.0 libmm11 php4
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 597kB/632kB of archives. After unpacking 1621kB will be
used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
_Woody_ - LordSutch.com MiniCD i386 Binary-1 (20020920)' in the drive
'/cdrom/' and press enter
It's asking for a cd. What am I doing wrong there?
PART2..
So.trying other things.I want to wget a file from another server.
Discovering that I'm missing wget, I do the same process as above and
end up trying:
apt-get install wget
Works like a charm. Connects to debian.uchicago.edu, installs.all is
well. I'm wget'n with the best of them.
What's the difference?
PART LAST...
So now.a general question about apt-get. When you think "Hey.I want to
install mysql server. (or whatever)" Do you usually look for
mysql-server in apt-cache search first? I mean.is that the first place
you guys go? Or is there some in-the-know command / webpage that you
look at first.
I'm loving Debian by the way. Cool stuff.
Thanks in advance.
Matt
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