Re: Some Newbie Questions
On Tue, 01 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote:
>
> ...and talking about EMails, can anyone give me any leads on the best way I
> ccan connect to the Net in Linux, surf the Net, send/receive EMails,
> participate in Chat programs etc. ?
>
> I'm experienced in W95, but I am only starting out in the world of Unix
> (...a whole new world), so if any responses could be in layman's terms I
> would be grateful :)
>
My personal preference is KDE. DEBs are at
http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/
This was my way of installing (as a relative newbie):
You need to modify /etc/apt/sources.list to include the line:
deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian slink rkrusty
go into dselect and select "update", then exit.
# dpkg --list kde*
to see them
Use
# apt-get install filename
and install kdesupport0g first, then kdebase, then every other package
starting with "kde".
Finally
# apt-get install kdm
Modify /etc/X11/window-managers
so that "/usr/bin/kde" is first in the list.
Reboot.
There's lots of other DEBs. Try
# dpkg --list k*
to see them.
Once you have KDE going, you will find it very Win95-like, and kppp is
the easiest way of all to setup for the Internet. You don't even need netscape,
as kfm the file manager is a good web browser, and kmail does email.
Regards,
Barry Kauler
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