Re: Recommendations??

[Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>]

On 2004-05-01, Larry Hazel <lhhazel@otelco.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the recommendations thus far.  It surely would be nice if all 
> this was packaged together somewhere so I could install without reading 
> a lot of documentation and have it available to play with while I'm 
> learning.

In Debian you do this to get say the Gnat compiler installed:

apt-get update
apt-get install gnat

(the first line is just to get up to speed with the repositories)

then all packages which gnat depend on will be installed.

Say I want to install GtkAda2 and XmlAda and ASIS then I do (after
running apt-get update):

#  apt-get install libasis-3.15p-1-dev libgtkada2-dev libxmlada1-dev

   Reading Package Lists... Done
   Building Dependency Tree... Done
   The following extra packages will be installed:
     gnat
   Suggested packages:
     gnat-glade gnat-doc asis-programs gch asis
   Recommended packages:
     xlibmesa-glu-dev libglu-dev
   The following NEW packages will be installed:
     gnat libasis-3.15p-1-dev libgtkada2-dev libxmlada1-dev
   0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded.
   Need to get 16.9MB of archives.
   After unpacking 71.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
   Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

As you can see the system detects that I do not have the Gnat compiler
installed an it installs it for me. It also suggest packages that can be
useful or are recommended but nor required.

> This is starting to sound like a lot of work to get up to speed, but I'm 
> gonna give it a shot.  I thought I retired 5 years ago :)

http://www.debian.org/

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual

I recommend that you install the base system from the stable
distribution and then upgrade to the testing version from the net.

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Preben Randhol -------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/

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