Re: help

[Bolan Meek <Bolan.Meek@wcom.com>]

> Sherry wrote:
> 
> > Hi,

Greetings:  God bless you.

> > A  friend installed debian on my PC. l now have a hardware modem
> > and would like to install PHP for veiwing.
> > My debian has know user interface. Could someone help me.
		  ^^^^
		      \----- "no"?

You surely have a character (a.k.a. "text") interface, at least.
If not, I have no imagination as to how your friend installed Debian.
Perhaps you mean "graphical" user interface, as in the X Windowing
System (?).

I presume when your friend installed Debian, you were given the
root (superuser) password & can log in as such?  If so, log in,
get your network connection going, unless you have a Debian CD,
& run 'dselect'.  Use the '[S]elect' option.
Be sure to read the help screens to understand
the what the keys do.

You can scroll down, and choose packages that you want, or you
can search for some text, such as 'php', and choose whichever
of those seem appropriate.

I am in some doubt that you need php:  if I am not mistaken,
this is for web-servers for interfacing to databases.  What
you need, I think, is a web browser.  Some available through
dselect are lynx (character-based), chimera2, arena, qweb,
gzilla, mozilla, and netscape.  Search, or scroll/page to the 'web'
section.  There are others in there also:  I just can't
remember the names of the others.

What are the ways you want to use your Debian system?

> >    passion

What an intriguing name... ;{)