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I am currnetly trying out a new distro MEPIS i had been runing SuSE 9.2 since i started linux back in january. anyways if anybody has any pointers as to ...
  1. 05-03-2005 #1
    gassman
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    MEPIS

    I am currnetly trying out a new distro MEPIS i had been runing SuSE 9.2 since i started linux back in january. anyways if anybody has any pointers as to what is the pakage manager (if there is one) or updating kde after all im currently on kde 3.2 any help is much appreciated thanx.
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    MEPIS is based on debian and using dpkg and it's frontend apt. You can also use the graphical frontend synaptic.

    To install a .deb-package from terminal run this:
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    su -c "dpkg -i  /home/user/package.deb"
    To automaticly fetch+install kde + it's deps, run this:
    Code:
    su -c "apt-get update && apt-get install kde"
    If you recently updated the package-three with "apt-get update", it would be sufficient with this:
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    su -c "apt-get install kde"
    Synaptic is pretty much self-explaining, at least in newer versions of mepis synaptic is included by default. If not, you can always install synaptic over apt, or just switch to installing packages with commandline.
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