Re: Wanting to use a gui with Debian.

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 11:36 -0600, Kent West wrote:
>  
>
> > Patrick J. Farhar escribió:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > > I have installed Debian and want to use a gui to install other 
> > > > packages such as Squid.  My purpose is use the server for caching web 
> > > > pages.  I am NEW to linux and do not know how to make Debian give me 
> > > > a gui interface at boot.
> > > >        
> > Try "apt-get install x-window-system kde kdm synaptic".
> >
> > This should install a basic X Window System, with the KDE environment 
> > (lots of bells and whistles, so hope you have plenty of horse power / 
> > RAM), and the KDM graphical login manager which will start the gui at 
> > boot. It'll also install Synaptic, which is a gui front-end to apt.
> >    
>
> Remember, this is going to be a server.
>
>  
Yeah, I thought about warning him of the pitfalls of having unneeded 
stuff on a server, but he said he was "NEW" to Linux, so I figured at 
this stage he's more interested in having something "familiar" than 
having something "safe". I also assumed that his server was not going to 
be mission-critical, or he wouldn't be doing it with an OS with which 
he's unfamiliar.

Having said that, I agree with Ron; Patrick, you should save the GUIs 
for workstation use, and keep your servers simpler.

--
Kent