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Hints and Tips

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Windows SSH Client

Windows SSH Client

You can use PuTTY as a Windows ssh or telnet client, which can be found at:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

The

http://linux.rice.edu/help/tips-ssh.html

page also has links to various SSH

clients.

Installing and Adding Packages

To install packages from the main Debian archive at

ftp://ftp.debian.org

:

1.

Verify that the network is configured (including DNS server) so that you have
http access to the server ftp.debian.org with the command:

# telnet ftp.debian.org http

2.

Connect to the server by typing GET and pressing the Enter key. You should
see something like this:

# telnet ftp.debian.org http

Trying 128.101.80.131...

Connected to ftp.debian.org.

Escape character is '^]'.

GET

302 Found

Found

The document has moved here.

Connection closed by foreign host.

3.

Update the available package list:

# apt-get update

apt-get downloads the list of available packages.

The list of available packages is in /var/lib/dpkg/available, which may be
searched with the apt-cache search command.

See the apt-cache manual page if you need assistance.

4.

Install the desired package:

# apt-get install jed

apt-get will download and install jed and any other packages required by jed.

5.

You may also download and install any package updates that have been
released by doing:

# apt-get upgrade