was having a marvelous time, but decided i wanted some games- without really paying close attention, i ran aptitude, and did this:
Will install 14 packages, and remove 27 packages.
29.8MB of disk space will be used
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[REMOVE, NOT USED] libasound2-dev
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] atlas3-base
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] iputils-ping
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] liballegro4.1
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] liballegro4.1-plugin-jack
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libg2c0
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] powermanga-data
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] python-pygame
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] python2.3-numeric-ext
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] python2.3-pygame
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] wing-data
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] alsa-headers
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] aumix-gtk
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] dvdrecord
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] giflib-bin
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] giflib3g
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] hotplug-utils
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] irda-common
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] irda-tools
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] kgpgcertmanager
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] klogd
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] loadlin
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] lynx
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] mtr
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] netkit-ping
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] nvidia-glx-src
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] nvidia-kernel-src
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] pump
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] raidtools2
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] reiserfsprogs
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] sysklogd
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] sysutils
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] tct
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] tftp
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] tftpd-hpa
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] unrar
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] wxftp-gtk
[INSTALL] cuyo
[INSTALL] powermanga
[INSTALL] solarwolf
[INSTALL] wing
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... then, for some reason still unclear to me, i restarted without reinstalling the packages. i think i should be able to download the packages with the knoppix cd ( what i am using now), put them in a folder, and use dpkg to install them, but i don't know where to get the packages. Any Help?