X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/40e5a99ac3606b4eaf19e204bcca8bada5c88908..a86f851619f720b8c4a74d01274c5e2bf012d451:/doc/guide.sgml diff --git a/doc/guide.sgml b/doc/guide.sgml index e523c0e80..747c5718c 100644 --- a/doc/guide.sgml +++ b/doc/guide.sgml @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ - + APT User's Guide Jason Gunthorpe jgg@debian.org -$Id: guide.sgml,v 1.4 2001/04/10 07:02:55 jgg Exp $ +$Id: guide.sgml,v 1.7 2003/04/26 23:26:13 doogie Exp $ This document provides an overview of how to use the the APT package manager. @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

-For more details, on Debian GNU/Linux systems, see the file -/usr/doc/copyright/GPL for the full license. +For more details, on Debian systems, see the file +/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL for the full license. @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ requires another package to be installed at the same time to work properly.

For instance, mailcrypt is an emacs extension that aids in encrypting email -with GPG. Without GPGP installed mail-crypt is useless, so mailcrypt has a +with GPG. Without GPGP installed mailcrypt is useless, so mailcrypt has a simple dependency on GPG. Also, because it is an emacs extension it has a simple dependency on emacs, without emacs it is completely useless. @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ available. This is done with apt-get update. For instance, # apt-get update Get http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/binary-i386/ Packages -Get http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ frozen/contrib Packages +Get http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ testing/contrib Packages Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done @@ -171,14 +171,14 @@ the dselect package selection GUI. dselect is used to select the packages to be installed or removed and APT actually installs them.

-To enable the APT method you need to to select [A]ccess in dselect +To enable the APT method you need to select [A]ccess in dselect and then choose the APT method. You will be prompted for a set of Sources which are places to fetch archives from. These can be remote -Internet sites, local Debian mirrors or CDROMs. Each source can provide +Internet sites, local Debian mirrors or CD-ROMs. Each source can provide a fragment of the total Debian archive, APT will automatically combine them -to form a complete set of packages. If you have a CDROM then it is a good idea +to form a complete set of packages. If you have a CD-ROM then it is a good idea to specify it first and then specify a mirror so that you have access to -the latest bug fixes. APT will automatically use packages on your CDROM before +the latest bug fixes. APT will automatically use packages on your CD-ROM before downloading from the Internet.

@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ get. Please give the distribution tag to get or a path to the package file ending in a /. The distribution - tags are typically something like: stable unstable frozen non-US + tags are typically something like: stable unstable testing non-US Distribution [stable]: @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ prompt until you have specified all that you want.

Before starting to use dselect it is necessary to update the -available list by selecting [U]pdate from the menu. This is a super-set of +available list by selecting [U]pdate from the menu. This is a superset of apt-get update that makes the fetched information available to dselect. [U]pdate must be performed even if apt-get update has been run before. @@ -482,11 +482,11 @@ status messages. # apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US/ Packages -Get:2 http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ frozen/contrib Packages -Hit http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ frozen/main Packages +Get:2 http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ testing/contrib Packages +Hit http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ testing/main Packages Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/binary-i386/ Packages -Get:5 http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ frozen/non-free Packages -11% [5 frozen/non-free `Waiting for file' 0/32.1k 0%] 2203b/s 1m52s +Get:5 http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ testing/non-free Packages +11% [5 testing/non-free `Waiting for file' 0/32.1k 0%] 2203b/s 1m52s