Owner's manual

Hints and Tips 13

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

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">

<TITLE>302 Found</TITLE>

</HEAD><BODY>

<H1>Found</H1>

The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.debian.org/distrib/

ftplist">here</A>.<P>

</BODY></HTML>

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