Re: .deb? Debian?

[Zack]

I too have yup installed, but it does not function.

I've found apt-get to be quite usefull.

#apt-get install abiword

-Z

Andrew McVinnie <mcvinniea@rkymtnhi.com> wrote:

>Actually, upon further investigation, I am even more confused.  I did 
>your trick to check version number, but this time I replaced "yup" with 
>"abiword"  (rpm -q abiword) and received this reply 
>"abiword-1.0.1-1.ximian.2"
>
>So it looks to me like I have Abiword, but why isnt it in any of my 
>menus?  Neither Gnome nor KDE show it in a menu...
>
>Alex Nonnemacher wrote:
>
>> I, too, get the same error message, Andrew, but I know I do have yup 
>> installed. Try this: type "rpm -q yup" and see what is returned. I 
>> suspect it has something to do with setting Linux to look in a 
>> different directory for yup, but I haven't been able to do so.
>>
>> alex
>>
>> On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 05:33 , Andrew McVinnie wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I tried the "yup install abiword" from the terminal as root 
>>> just as you suggest, and I got the error "bash: yup command not 
>>> found"  so I can only assume that I don't have the yup program.  I 
>>> will go look for it at freshmeat.net, but if you have a better 
>>> suggestion.... I would appreciate it.
>>> Thanks
>>> Andrew McVinnie
>>>
>>> BTW I am using YDL 2.1
>>>
>>> Kimball Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> .deb files are generally the way that debian packages software for 
>>>> installation via apt.  Apt is the debian version of yup, which is 
>>>> what linux ppc (at least version 2.2) uses to install software.  
>>>> Version 2.2 also has apt installed, so in theory, you can install 
>>>> .deb files.. but that's really the hard way to go about things.... 
>>>> if you want abiword installed, here is all you have to do:
>>>>
>>>> 1)  Become root.
>>>> 2)  Type:  yup install abiword
>>>>
>>>> Then watch the magic... it will go to your local ftp mirror, 
>>>> download and then  install the abiword package.
>>>> That's it. :)
>>>>
>>>> Good luck!
>>>>
>>>> -Kimball Larsen
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday 01 June 2002 10:06, Andrew McVinnie wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How do you open .deb files?  I downloaded the new AbiWord which is a
>>>>> .deb file, and when I double-click it, it opens up like a folder, in
>>>>> which is an install file, but the install file opens as text in gedit!
>>>>>
>>>>> How do you install these files?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Andrew McVinnie
>>>>>
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