X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/8835c5d00d1cfb47ad29d4cfd0c80e4f03a58478..a86f851619f720b8c4a74d01274c5e2bf012d451:/doc/guide.sgml diff --git a/doc/guide.sgml b/doc/guide.sgml index 1b7e1d8f3..747c5718c 100644 --- a/doc/guide.sgml +++ b/doc/guide.sgml @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ 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 +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. @@ -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.

@@ -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.