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Okay,
I have been trying to get a useful Debian
unstallation up for about 5 weeks now. I can get the base system
installed but then where do I look for new packages (the iso image contains next
to nothing from what I can tell)? I don't know what to set in the
/etc/apt/sources.list file. I probably have missed something in some of
the documents but the dselect-beginners guide doesn't tell you much of
anything. I'm looking to find xfree86-4.0.*, kde-2.2 and Mozilla or
netscape. I guess I could build the whole system from source but I figure
there has to be a way or all the debian developers are just wasting their
time.
When I state in the sources.list file that apt can
look in the unstable tree it seems to automatically tell itself to remove a
whole bunch of packages. I'm really getting bitter. I know I could
just go to Redhat and grab that and install it but this is a labour of
love. I see the power of apt and dselect I just don't know how to harness
it. Maybe I'm just supposed to grab single debs off the net, I don't
know.
Any help or direction (maybe there is a better
dselect guide) would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Colin
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