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Topic: Updates / Package upgrader / Package addon tool, I think Damnsmalllinux needs these< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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Posted: Jan. 10 2004,02:44 QUOTE
Damn small linux is so damn simple I love it.  Boots up with no problem runs flawlessly for what it is and just is plain awsome. I think there needs to be some sort of update utility for Hdd installs and a package updater/ new package installer.  I work at an ISP and would be happy to host such a project if need be.  I know its small and its suppost to be under 50 mb to be purposefull, but this is such a great Distro that the potential of installing ontop of a small install would be great. This way you could choose and really choose what you want installed instead of a so called simple install that all these bloated linux os's now a days have.  Please let me know what everyone thinks about this idea.
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Posted: Jan. 10 2004,05:39 QUOTE
As it's based on Debian, DSL has the apt package tool installed already. Just type
'apt-get install packagename'. For starters, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and update it
to install from 'testing' instead of 'stable'. Then run 'apt-get update'. Finally, run
'apt-get install synaptic'. Synaptic is a GUI package installer, I think it's just a
frontend to apt-get.

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Posted: Jan. 10 2004,05:48 QUOTE
Don't forget to type in the "sudo su" command on a blank line before doing the apt-get stuff. You need to do your apt-get and synaptic stuff as username "root" and sudo su makes this possible.
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