Re: Fresh Debian Stable install with nolden Woody - Small comments
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On Samstag, 25. Januar 2003 23:22, Charles de Miramon wrote:
> Le Samedi 25 Janvier 2003 18:59, Michael Peddemors a écrit :
> > Just a few notes .. Thought I would try an install as if I was a typical
> > debian newbie.. And take notes along the way.
> >
> > Installed Debian Base.
> > Did an 'apt-get update','apt-get upgrade'
> > I find I can't do anything unless I can edit/look at files so I did a
> > quick 'apt-get vim less'
> > Now, I added the nolden source, and did another 'apt-get update'
> >
> > Okay, now I decide I need mail, so 'apt-get kmail'
> > Hmm, okay in theory kmail can work like that, but as a user on a personal
> > pc, it won't so did an 'apt-get xserver-svga' and went through the dpkg.
>
> I think that a newbie should use tasksel and not apt for installing KDE. So
> It would be better to lobby for a KDE-Workstation task in tasksel that
> would automatically install X before KDE than creating dependencies in the
> packages.
The point that's missing is the kde metapackage to be updated. I had a look at
it to modify it for a suitable KDE 3 version so you can just do apt-get
install kde (which then includes kdm, kdebase, part of kdenetwork etc.). I'm
not ready with that yet, that will take a while.
Ralf
>
> Cheers,
> Charles
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