On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:52:27PM +0000, Alex Hunsley wrote:
> Towards the end of a Debian install, you're offered to install
> extra software packages, in Simple or Advanced mode. Advanced
> mode just launches dselect, which can be done easily at any
> time, but is there any way for me to launch the Simple mode
> installer from a working debian install? Or, failing that, to
> find out what the software it offered was, and what packages
> they mapped to?
when you're doing the install, you can
alt-F2
to hop to virtual terminal numero deux. there, you can
ps afx
to see what's happening behind the scenes. in this case,
tasksel
is the culprit. once tasksel is running, you can press
i
to see more details about any task before installing it. also,
you can try
apt-cache show task-something-or-other
or
dpkg -L task-thingie-gizmo
to see more about it.
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #112 from Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
:
It's easy to TEST ONE WINDOW MANAGER FROM WITHIN ANOTHER
by launching Xnest:
$ Xnest :1 &
$ twm -display :1 &
Use "apt-get install xnest" to get it.
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
