Other Help Topics :: installing, compiling, doing stuff WITHOUT apt-get
Hi Guys
New to Linux and DSL.
I'm also needing help in the respect that I have no net access through DSL (and I am not bothered about net access as of yet). What I any having troubles with is Dependency Hell of .deb packages, and the fact I cannot compile progs like xine or wine or [you get the idea].
My main question is this, then: How do I get DSL into a state where it will compile things nicely after downloading the source of said applications?
I've downloaded the *.deb for gcc, gcc-295, cpp, cpp-295, [and dependencies], but still cannot compile things. Help would be apreciated here.
Borg Tickle King
PS Using DSL 0.6.1, and have dpkg working.
I installed gnupg and gpa taking the following steps.
1) Downloaded, gunzipped and untared dpkg
2) Downloaded gnupg
3) Executed dpkg -i gnupg
4) Downloaded gpa
5) Executed dpkg -i gpa
I'm writing this on memory so I may be forgetting something but I think this is all you need to do, except that you need to copy the files maybe to a USB Drive on another computer that has Internet access.
Good luck. 
One note on "dpkg -i", might be obvious to some but I forgot and was getting very frustrated when it wouldn't work, you need to be in the directory where your deb files are - eg.,
sudo su
cd /var/cache/apt/archives
dkpg -i whatever.deb
exit
I was trying to just fire up an x-term and run dpkg -i, not thinking about which directory I was in when trying to run it...
Or I guess you could dpkg -i /var/cache/... etc, but it'd be easier to change to the dir first.
Is this dpkg program a nececity? I read on the page that it come with all these tgz's and stuff. This seems pretty complicated. I suppose its the price ya pay for a 50MB OS.
What are the steps all you guys do after you HD install? I would like to be able to install my modem drivers. Then go about getting OpenGL working and blasting into some Quake 3.
I doubt that you will be able to get OpenGL working with DSL's TinyX or "KDrive" XWindow servers.
If you are brave, you may be able to successfully install the full version of the XFree86 system. Good Luck.
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