"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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