[+PLUS] debian etch (attention praveen)

[Riyaz Usman]

>
> i did that when i faced problems when i was trying to install  desired
> > packages after configuring my network.
>
>
> did what? refresh?
>

Most probably, yes.

it ran that for several minutes displaying a progress info , but i didnt
> > understand why it has to be done!
> > any comments on this is welcome!
> >
> > no idea what you are talking about. If you could give a bit more deatil
> I may be able to tell you.


It's downloading  the sources.gz (package information). It'll take some time
if you have a low speed internet connection. The one from
us.debian.orgitself is around 5 MB of size, each of these repos will
have these files,
varying in sizes.


Don't touch dpkg (similar to rpm) directly if you can !!  In this case use
> 'apt-get install synaptic' (similar to yum) after adding CD2 to the sources.


True. Follow the white rabbit :)

-- 
Riyaz Usman
http://riyaz.bitinc.co.in
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