Re: Debian Installation Goals (was: Happy Birthday)
cobaco <cobaco@linux.be> writes:
> On 2003-08-17 09:02, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > As bad as it might be I would like to have a menu tree containing all
> > packages that can be configured and when you select one item a menu
> > would pop up with its configuration options.
>
> # apt-cache show configure-debian
> Package: configure-debian
> Priority: optional
> Section: admin
> Installed-Size: 92
> Maintainer: David Nusinow <david_nusinow@yahoo.com>
> Architecture: all
> Version: 0.5.0.2
> Depends: debconf, perl
> Filename: pool/main/c/configure-debian/configure-debian_0.5.0.2_all.deb
> Size: 9506
> MD5sum: b2ba827bd93b996ba32d99926911ee4f
> Description: central configuration program for packages using debconf
> configure-debian is a program which presents a list of packages which
> use Debconf, Debian's configuration management system.
> .
> Debconf provides first-time installation wizards that run when a
> package is installed. You may reconfigure these packages at a later
> time, if you wish, and configure-debian makes that very easy.
> .
> configure-debian splits the package lists into the subsections which
> make up the Debian archive, such as x11, base, gnome, or kde.
When is that used? At what stage?
I'm talking about the selection of udebs and I certainly had no
submenus with any images I managed to build.
Let me guess. You first have to install the configure-debian.udeb?
.oO( Which no newbie would ever find )
MfG
Goswin
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