Debian Questions

[Nick Stockton]

dpkg -i file.deb
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From: "Robert Spangler" <spangler.robert at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: Debian Questions


> Maybe a bug that I need to report.
>
> Another question: Maybe I skipped over it but the aptitude manpage doesn't 
> seem to explain how to install a .deb archive.  I downloaded Virtual Box 
> and wish to install it but if I do aptitude install <file> it says that it 
> can't find such a package.  Also, on the download page for Virtual Box, it 
> only had a version available for Debian 4.0 - should this still work with 
> Sid Unstable?  Should I just do aptitude install virtualbox and accept 
> what it has, as it is only 10MB?  It said that some module package is 
> broken.
>
> So far loving Debian!  Only distro, besides Ubuntu, that I've been 
> successful using Gnome.
>
> Thanks,
> Robby
>
> Gregory Nowak wrote:
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>> Is this something new in the Lenny installer? When I installed Sarge,
>> and then Etch on another machine afterwords, I seem to remember being
>> able to select whether I wanted to install lilo, or grub during the
>> install process.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:14:59PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> Robert Spangler, le Sun 03 Aug 2008 12:04:55 -0400, a ?crit :
>>>> I didn't quite see it as a problem.
>>> Well, what you describe below suggests that there _is_ a problem a
>>> problem :)
>>>
>>>> I think the issue is that, by default, when hitting tab at the boot 
>>>> screen and inputting Speakup parameters, I don't get the expert 
>>>> installation which is why all of these options are chosen for me?
>>> IIRC even in expert installation mode debian doesn't let you choose
>>> between grub and lilo.
>>>
>>>> That is just my observation so please correct me if I am wrong.  So if
>>>> I could figure out how to get the expert mode to start with Speakup,
>>>> that would probably remedy the problem?
>>> That's probably described in the installation manual.
>>>
>>> Samuel
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