Re: [SLUG] How to find .deb's for debian.

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 09:11:39PM +1000, Rodos wrote:
> Well the sad news is that I had a hard drive crash and my mail server died
> an awful death. I have taken the oportunity f the reboot to upgrade and
> update lots of things. The main was was moving to debian.
> 
> I tried to get going with exim for the mailer but gave up and went with
> sendmail. I got the modems working with mgetty and AutoPPP so that cool.

I've found exim's autoconfiguration to be pretty straight forward. Perhaps
send an email to exim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with an explanation of the problem?

> I am trying to find a pop3 daemon to run. When I search debian.org it
> tells me about two server gnu-pop3d and qpopper. How do I install these
> with dselect or apt-get?

apt-get install <package>

another useful trick is:

apt-cache search <keyword> and
apt-cache show <package>

> Here is what is in my sources.list
> 
> deb-src http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian stable main contrib non-free 
> deb-src http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian unstable main contrib non-free 

This will allow you to say:

$ apt-get source apache

and have the source for Apache downloaded and unpacked ready for you to build.

If that isn't what you what you may want to s/deb-src/deb/

HTH,
Anand