On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:14:58AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:52:50PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > > The biggest thing I've learned is to install things a bit at a time;
> >
> > I'd agree with that.
> >
> > > Lets say you choose aptitude, then
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:52:50PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > The biggest thing I've learned is to install things a bit at a time;
>
> I'd agree with that.
>
> > Lets say you choose aptitude, then you install that ... Then I install mc
> > followed by lynx. Then ... docu
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 06:23:38AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 14 06:07 -0600]:
>
> > Package management is the cornerstone to Debian. The individual
> > packages are installed by dpkg but how they're selected, managed, and
> > have their dependanci
* Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 14 06:07 -0600]:
> Package management is the cornerstone to Debian. The individual
> packages are installed by dpkg but how they're selected, managed, and
> have their dependancies resolved is the job of a package manager (that
> then run dpkg on each
Douglas Tutty wrote:
> The biggest thing I've learned is to install things a bit at a time;
I'd agree with that.
> Lets say you choose aptitude, then you install that ... Then I install mc
> followed by lynx. Then ... documentation packages ... [then] exim4, mailx,
> mutt, and fetchmail T
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:08:14PM +, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have
> become used to particular ways of maintaining my machine and also
> became used to a certasin belt-&-braces mentality. I loved Slackware,
> found tremendous respec
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On Tuesday 12 December 2006 20:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to
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> And gdm even lets you choose your window manager before you log in!
kdm also does, which is what I use. Usually I use KDE, unless I'm on
my "backup" machine in which case I use
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:08 +, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
> used to particular ways of maintaining my machine and also became used
> to a certasin belt-&-braces mentality. I loved Slackware, found
> tremendous respect fo
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:24:53AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
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> On Tuesday 12 December 2006 06:45, Re: andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> was heard to say:
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> > I haven't
> > used Gnome since RH 7.2 preferring XFce throughout my Slackware
> > days, s
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On Tuesday 12 December 2006 06:45, Re: andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Thanks for your welcomes and recommendations. I look forward to
> getting to know the new system. As I said I am very impressed,
> although a bit confused too as I lea
andy wrote:
> Thanks for your welcomes and recommendations. I look forward to
> getting to know the new system. As I said I am very impressed,
> although a bit confused too as I learn my way around. I haven't used
> Gnome since RH 7.2 preferring XFce throughout my Slackware days, so I
> am becoming
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 17:10 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> I would probably expunge mplayer from my systems except for all the
> .wmv files people like to send. :-|
Keep an eye on future upgrades, most players uses ffmpeg but not all are
updated (xine, gstreamer-ffmpeg etc.) to include the recent
Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 11 Dec 2006, andy wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
steers?
mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also g
On 11 Dec 2006, andy wrote:
>
>Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
>
>
> Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
> steers?
>
>
> mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also get
> it,
On Monday 11 December 2006 01:08 pm, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
> used to particular ways of maintaining my machine and also became used
> to a certasin belt-&-braces mentality. I loved Slackware, found
-
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:48:30AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
>
> > Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any steers?
>
> Debian has very strong rules about free software (read the DFSG) so you
> won't find these i
* andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 11 15:50 -0600]:
> Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any steers?
I've found that kpdf of KDE does a good job with PDFs. Only
infrequently does Acrobat do a better job.
I would probably expunge mplayer from my systems except for a
Welcome!
I too started with Slackware some ten years ago or so and in '99
started with Debian Slink, 2.1 and quickly moved to Potato, 2.2, when
it was released. You will quickly discover the "Debian Way" to system
administration. Debconf helps a lot amd packages generally have
sensible defaults
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
steers?
mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also get
it, along with various codecs of questionable legality fro
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
> Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any steers?
Debian has very strong rules about free software (read the DFSG) so you
won't find these in the official repositories. You must add this to
/etc/apt/sources.list
deb
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
>
> Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
> steers?
mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also get
it, along with various codecs of questionable legality from
www.debian-multimedia.org. I be
Kevin Mark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:08:14PM +, andy wrote:
Hi all
I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
Hi Andy,
welcome to Debian. as of today the next stable release 'etch' has gone
into 'freeze', this is the last stage before it is re
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:08 +, andy wrote:
I am still on a very steep learning curve, so would
welcome anyone's steer in terms of learning how to optimise my system
and good documentation for a Debian-n00b.
I'm not sure what kind of docs you're looking for, b
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:08 +, andy wrote:
> I am still on a very steep learning curve, so would
> welcome anyone's steer in terms of learning how to optimise my system
> and good documentation for a Debian-n00b.
I'm not sure what kind of docs you're looking for, but I suggest you
check out
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:08:14PM +, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
Hi Andy,
welcome to Debian. as of today the next stable release 'etch' has gone
into 'freeze', this is the last stage before it is released as 'stable'.
So,
congrats andy and welcome!
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:48:13PM +, andy wrote:
> >>Debian Etch brings the user. This is *so* very cool.
word to the wise. do some reading and get a knowledge of the
differences between "etch" and "testing" and "stable" and tracking the
various flavors of deb. As
Peter Colton wrote:
hello andy,
A document that is very handy " Debian Reference "
" apt-get install debian-reference-en "
link for file brower : /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.html
regards : peter colton
On Monday 11 December 2006 19:08, andy wrote:
hello andy,
A document that is very handy " Debian Reference "
" apt-get install debian-reference-en "
link for file brower : /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.html
regards : peter colton
On Monday 11 December 2006 19:08, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm new to
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