On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 13:54, Michael Havens wrote: > On Sunday 05 October 2003 02:12 am, der.hans wrote:
> >
> > > Haven't tried it with Deb yet.) but since someone went through the time
> > > and effort to make them Deb packages I want to go through the time and
> > > effort to install them the "Debian way"
> >
> > Put the new sources in /etc/apt/sources.list, do an update, then install
> > away.
>
> So you are saying that the programs in /etc/apt/sources.llist are what get
> update provided they are at marliet?
> --
> <:-)~MIKE~(-:>
>
The October edition of Linux Magazine has a decent article on Apt. It's
written for apt for rpm, but it does a good job explaining how apt does
what it does.
Mike, I think you might find the understanding you're looking for in
this article.
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