apt-get help

[alex2319]

Hi:
Installed Debian (stable, 3.1 sarge) for several week, everything works fine. But when I tried to install new software, for example, wine, synaptics etc, I have no luck what so ever. I am always having either dependencies problem, or libc6xx is missing and others. I have to add some lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, but usually the statement I need is not mentioned in the site the I download those **.deb files. I am really lost in apt-get. Where can I find more education on apt-get??

[brainiac]

There are several good online tutorials. After you add to your sources list you need to remember to "apt-get update" to load the contents of that repository.At the command line my systems seem to like a periodical "updatedb" for whatever reasons. I have also had dependency problems and waited a couple days and tried again and had software installs go just fine. You do not need to download the deb files, just do an "apt-get install package name" and it should take care of all the dependency issues for you.

[alex2319]

Thanks. I finally successfully installed Synaptic. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ima...icon_smile.gif