"Kompalli SuryaPrakash" neosurya@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi There, I have recently installed debain on my machine. And >its' nice :).

Welcome to debian!!

Ihave the following doubts - 1> How can we browse through the dselect (Select), >which gives the

list of the applications.

goto the select option to choose the packages that you want to install ( just press enter). if there are any conflicts, it will tell u about it.

Press '?' to get a detailed list of keystroke commands. Press 'X' to quit without installing it. '/ keyword' will search for it..etc..etc

2> If I delete the shortcuts to zope in rc2.d and upto rc5.d, will

that

be enuff to remove it from startup? Or will it have some bad

consequnces?

if u dont want zope, i think it might be better to 'dpkg --remove zope' than modifying the startup files..

4> How can I install rpms in Debian or will i have to >install thru

tars?

$apt-get install rpm

(after connecting to the internet or just goto debian.org and d/l the package. imo, apt-get makes it *much* easier, one of the main reason to use debian over any other distro since it automatically d/l all the required dependent files )

you can install rpm packages in debian. use tar balls if u require the source code (or if they havent provided debs).

Pine is not distributed by default with Debian distro because it doesnt come under the GPL but u can d/l it seperatly from their website.

Ananth

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