Re: Where to go from here

2001-08-13 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:41:34AM -0400, Colin Bell wrote: > Okay, > > I have been trying to get a useful Debian unstallation up for > about 5 weeks now. I can get the base system installed but > then where do I look for new packages (the iso image contains > next to nothing from what I can tell

Re: Where to go from here

2001-08-10 Thread Paul Mackinney
Frank Zimmermann muttered: > Colin Bell wrote: > > I have been trying to get a useful Debian unstallation up for about 5 > > weeks now. I can get the base system installed but then where do I look Lots of good suggestions, but for a newbie I'd focus on the docs at www.debian.org. I found http:/

Re: Where to go from here

2001-08-03 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Colin Bell wrote: Okay, I have been trying to get a useful Debian unstallation up for about 5 weeks now. I can get the base system installed but then where do I look for new packages (the iso image contains next to nothing from what I can tell)? I don't know what to set in the /etc/apt/

Re: Where to go from here

2001-08-03 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:41:34AM -0400, Colin Bell wrote: > When I state in the sources.list file that apt can look in the unstable tree > it seems to automatically tell itself to remove a whole bunch of packages. > I'm really getting bitter. I know I could just go to Redhat and grab that >

Re: Where to go from here

2001-08-03 Thread Patrick Kirk
edit /etc/apt/sources.list needs to be edited. But don't do it the hard way. Find the correct information on www.google.com first. I went to Google, entered KDE and Debian and the first link was http://kde.debian.net/ Suggest you do this for any programs you need to install. And if you like to

Re: Where to go from here

2001-08-03 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Colin Bell wrote: > Okay, > > I have been trying to get a useful Debian unstallation up for about 5 > weeks now. I can get the base system installed but then where do I look > for new packages (the iso image contains next to nothing from what I can > tell)? I don't know wha