Re: How to set up packages?

[Joost_Kooij <jkooij@best.ms.philips.com>]

On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Tao Lu wrote:

> After I set up base system, how can I set up packages like X window and
> others ?

This is the general scheme:

Set the [a]ccess to where your archive is (ok, so you know this one already)
[U]pdate the list of available packages in the archive
[S]elect which packages you want to install next
[I]nstall the packages that you just selected in the step above
[C]onfigure still unconfigured packages (should rarely be necessary)
[R]emove unselected packages (when you find out that you need a bigger 
disk but you don't have the money yet)
[Q]uit and play around (read man pages, browse /usr/doc/*)

Once you feel confident about the keybindings in [s]elect, you'll agree 
that it is all quite intuitive actually.


On installing X some more explanation is probably appropriate:

Sometimes, there are problems because configuration scripts of x-packages
try to read from or write in configuration files that aren't properly
there yet because the important x-package xbase is not configured yet.
This effectively breaks the configuration of features like xdm.

The morale is, you should install X bit by bit. First xlib6, then xbase, 
then xfntbase, xfnt75, xfnt100 and xaw, then xserver-vga16 and xserver-<your 
card>.

At the point where you are installing xserver-vga16, answer "no" to the 
question to configure X now, but wait until xserver-<your card> asks the 
same question. The script that is started is XF86Setup and it needs your 
card's server to be present to configure X to use it.
Also, answer "no" to the question if you want to start xdm now. It is 
better to say "no" to xdm generally until you are happy with the way X 
works with `startx` (or `startx -- -bpp16`.)
When you eventually want to run xdm, just make a minor change to 
/etc/X11/config and run `shadowconfig on` (just in case your cd has this 
bug on it - it doesn't hurt if it hasn't) and `/etc/init.d/xdm start`

If things still go wrong, then you can always revert to use of raw dpkg.

mount /cdrom
cd /cdrom/stable/binary/x11
dpkg -i xlib6*
dpkg -i xbase*
dpkg -i xfntbase*
dpkg -i xfnt75*
dpkg -i xfnt100*
dpkg -i xaw*
dpkg -i xserver-vga16*
dpkg -i xserver-<fill in yourself>


Good luck and lots of fun with your Debian system,


Joost




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