On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 04:16, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:12:31AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
> > > Once you have your system installed you can check the available
> > > versions of a package using the 'apt-cache' command. Eg :
> > >
> > > $ apt-cache show mozilla-br
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:12:31AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 00:46, dman wrote:
> > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:56:36PM -0500, Darren wrote:
> > | I'm looking for comments/suggestions regarding Debian on the desktop.
> >
> > | Since, I will be using it almost exclusively as
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 00:46, dman wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:56:36PM -0500, Darren wrote:
> | I'm looking for comments/suggestions regarding Debian on the desktop.
>
> | Since, I will be using it almost exclusively as a desktop, I'm most
> | concerned about access to current builds of my
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 00:46, dman wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:56:36PM -0500, Darren wrote:
> | I'm looking for comments/suggestions regarding Debian on the desktop.
>
> | Since, I will be using it almost exclusively as a desktop, I'm most
> | concerned about access to current builds of my
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:56:36PM -0500, Darren wrote:
| I'm looking for comments/suggestions regarding Debian on the desktop.
| Since, I will be using it almost exclusively as a desktop, I'm most
| concerned about access to current builds of my favorite packages like KDE3,
| OpenOffice 1.0 & Moz
Thanks for all of the suggestions.
> "out of date" meaning "not released yesterday". We are currently without
KDE
> v3 (the files in there are KDE v2). The maintainer is trying to not deal
with
> KDe v3 until woody is shipped.
Hmm. I really like KDE3. And, I thought I saw it in the packages a
On Mon, 13 May 2002 15:24:34 -0700
"Andrey Vlassov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am in one boat with you - new to Debian. I was trying install X11 by
> hand and endup installing it through "tasksel". If you will select to
> install "Desktop System" it will install KDE and GNOME for you and bunch
This is how I get a "desktop system"
Install Debian, set up everything including a new kernel.
Then:
apt-get install x-window-system x-window-system-core fluxbox
xf86config
cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-old
cp /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
startx
regards,
T.
On Mo
Darren,
I am in one boat with you - new to Debian. I was trying install X11 by hand and
endup installing it through "tasksel". If you will select to install "Desktop
System" it will install KDE and GNOME for you and bunch of another KDE and GNOME
applications. In short it was as avalanche - you ju
>
> Since, I will be using it almost exclusively as a desktop, I'm most
> concerned about access to current builds of my favorite packages like KDE3,
> OpenOffice 1.0 & Mozilla 1.0RC2. Of course, OO and Mozilla have pretty good
> installers that come with them. I'm happy with those and could use
I'm looking for comments/suggestions regarding Debian on the desktop.
I'm what you might call a "fairly experienced newbie". I currently have
installs of FreeBSD, Mandrake and Gentoo, at home. I have been using
FreeBSD on its own box as a server while my Linux partitions share HD space
on anothe
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