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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05 April 2004 12:12, Tony Atkin wrote:
So now to the famed "apt-get install" command. I am not a veteran command line hacker and prefer the comfort of a GUI. My weapon of choice in this regard is KDE so "apt-get install kde" have a cup of tea and watch some TV and it's done. Debian veterans may have spotted the mistake already.
:-)
This got KDE ok but not all of the X windows system needed for it to work. Looking around the package list with Aptitude (Aptitude appears to be a successor to the awful dselect and not much better in my view!) I spotted the "x-window-system" package. Installing that and making a few good
Use apt-cache search instead.
configuration guesses I was up and running with a GUI. The only thing I needed to do was to raid XF86config from my SUSE installation for the Horizontal and Vertical refresh values for the monitor. After all that there was only one thing to do - go to the pub! There are still plenty of things to sort out with this installation but I'm getting the impression that most of them will be solvable. For example, whilst writing this message - with kmail - I wanted to spellcheck it but was told
KMail 1.6 I notice, have you tried kontact? It's the KDEPIM wrapper around KMail, KOrganizer, KNode, addressbook and KWeather. As-you-type spellchecking should already be available in 1.6 too.
The only major item to sort out now is the cdburner, but having had success on everything else I am quite hopeful.
apt-get install cdrecord
chmod 4755 /usr/bin/cdrecord
cdrecord -scanbus
vi /etc/default/cdrecord
set device default e.g. 0,0,0
set speed default e.g. 20 (write speed)
accept default buffer size of 4Mb.
(Or you can get all advanced again and use a label and then set burnfree on
etc.)
cdrecord -v -tao your.iso
Debian does default to secure over usable in things like this, cdrecord is
installed as for root only. Other things that I noticed were 'bare'
installations of bash and vi. The config files were installed in a
system-wide location but to get them to apply in your login, there's a little
scanning of man pages and copying to dot files in your /home/ required.
Little things like that can catch you out when moving from Mandrake. Overall,
I much prefer the Debian method but little things can be improved. Just by
posting here you help others with their Debian boxes.
The Debian developers seem to have been putting a lot of time into making many aspects of the installation easier, although finding out what you
Effort that puts other distros to shame.
need to do is sometimes harder than it should be. I'm very impressed with
Very true. apt-cache search is useful - that would have helped with your CUPS problem. My only remaining problems are PGP/MIME (waiting for KMail support) and MIDI. (Problematic sound card and not sure how to get the right config.)
this system, but, I suspect that having a permanent reliable internet connection has a lot to do with it. This perhaps is not a system for the
It has everything to do with the success of Debian. Once you get used to cron-apt you'll wonder how you managed without it - I haven't had to update anything, it's all done overnight. Over dial-up it isn't much fun.
beginner but then it does not make the demands that previous incarnations of this distro might have done.
X configuration is still a potential problem - sync rates don't make a whole lot of sense to the first-timer. - -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAcTz/iAEJSii8s+MRAosAAKCMJT/k4mN2Q7rIw2qfnOHz6Cs6sQCdFOih WAm/HTOAIGU8s+omyvpEV/A= =lILf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.