Installing software

To search for and install software using a comfortable gui, use

synaptic

To install software from the repositories in the command line, use

apt-get install mysql-server

This installs mysql-server. To install debian software packages from your harddisk, use dpkg. To search for software using the command line:

apt-cache search mysql-server

Searches for mysql-server in the repositories.

convert rpm to deb

alien --to-deb 123.rpm