26 Sep
2006
26 Sep
'06
10:15 a.m.
2006/9/26, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in:
Yes it will. U can also use dselect or aptitude for an ncurses based package selection.
I would suggest apt-get rather than aptitude. aptitude installs recommended packages also where as apt-get installs only dependencies. So you might end up with lot of packages which you may not actually need.
Or kpackage manager or synaptic for a gui package
installer. U can use alien to install rpms on a debian system or to convert rpms to debs.WARNING make sure that dependencies are met. U can occasionally mangle your system.
# apt-get -f install
if you mangle your system. A really helpful command when you are in trouble.
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