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On 3/2/07, Peter Lloyd-Jones <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > I am running Ubuntu also (on my Lappy). I have a question about packages and > package management. > > Am I right in thinking there is a file somewhere which contains all the > details. On top of that sits dpkg, on that apt, on that aptitude and in > Ubuntu's case on top of that Add/Remove. I think most of the dpkg database lives around /var/lib/dpkg/* Apt keeps track of its own information has it has some higher level stuff to manage but aptitude etc are just GUIs to drive apt. Or i'm horribly missinformed (again). > > Further though I have not done this, when downloading something which is not > in any of "my" Repositories into any other area than my own home directory I > should use something like alien as this also updates the said file. (How I > do this in the case of Suns Java I dont know?, it just sort of put itself > into usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_10/) Since sun java is now gpl there are packages in the debian repositories, not sure about ubuntu yet but worth a look. -- Robin Cornelius http://www.byteme.org.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html