[clug] Debian session for any Choobs?

[steve jenkin]

Hal Ashburner wrote on 16/6/09 2:04 PM:
> Michael James wrote:
>>
>> I've bitten the bullet and am trying to learn Debian.
>>
>>
>> Topics:
>>     Lightning tour of Installation*
>>     Apt from an RPM user's perspective.
>>    
> This might be one of those "from 1000ft" things.
> the rpm equivalent is a thing called dpkg. The packages themselves end
> in .deb rather than .rpm. Apt is the equivalent of something like yum or
> (is it yast on suse?)
> The basics seem to translate pretty easily nowadays.
> Let's just list them. To start it off:

<snip>

> 
> Hal Ashburner
> 
> 
> *I thought I'd loathe gentoo for example, I was wrong, it's rather nice
> for certain uses. using emerge isn't a million miles away from apt/dpkg
> and yum/rpm either.


Hal,

good stuff, thanks.

Could someone comment on/briefly describe correct use of 'apt-cdrom'?
(mentioned here:
<http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html>)

Something that bugs me with .deb systems is 'upgrade'/'dist-upgrade'
default being done over the Net.

I don't maintain a local repo - is that the real answer?
What commands to sync it or load it from a CD/DVD download?
[This may be way beyond the simple intro Michael wanted :-(]

I know its possible to update from downloaded (optical) media, but have
never learnt how it do it :-(

i.e. what are the instructions to update/upgrade/dist-upgrade a system
from CD/DVD/... ?
Which media should be downloaded/used for Debian & Ubuntu?

cheers
steve

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