From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f1f83158e92ef6d3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Recommendations?? Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 10:45:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PVV Message-ID: References: <6DDkc.59$rt4.2008@eagle.america.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.241.82.81 X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1083408355 4070 129.241.82.81 (1 May 2004 10:45:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 10:45:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:162 Date: 2004-05-01T10:45:55+00:00 List-Id: On 2004-05-01, Larry Hazel 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. -- Preben Randhol -------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ () "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" /\ - Isaac Asimov