Using Packages
Started with a new tutorial in www.aboutdebian.com called Using Packages.
The goal was to learn various ways to install packages, to get to use the X-Server GUI, configuring the apt-utilities to get packages information off the net and also to set-up an auto update.
Things started off wrongly in the beginning where they wanted me to run dselect. I tried but the command prompt kept saying telling me there's no such command. Apparently dselect wasn't installed when I installed the OS, so I used apt-get to install dselect and no problems there after.
Went through the tutorial which touched on the basics of using dselect to browse and install programs, and there are many programs available. Next I used apt-cache to search for a particular program so that we could install wu_ftpd using apt-get. Lastly I learnt how to create a bash script for the cron scheduler to run at predetermined times. This script was used to automate the update of the system regularly.
That marked the end of that tutorial.
Signing off
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