Re: New user help...
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 08:49, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> I feel like RedHat has sold out on me as a paying customer, so I'm
> looking at Debian. I've run into a few problems, though...
...
> Second, I tried 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-586'. I got the
> new kernel installed and running (which nicely took care of the above
> problem), but it didn't come with pcmcia modules so now I have no
> network. Are those in another package?
kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-586tsc
Hint: look at http://packages.debian.org
> Third, to see if apt-get is as easy as everyone says, I did 'apt-get
> install xfce'. It downloaded all the dependencies, or so it says...
> but when I run startxfce, it bombs because it can't find 'xinit'.
> What am I missing?
Install x-window-system. xfce depends on xlibs, but since X is client
server, installing a package that uses X does not automatically install
the whole X system; it could be using a display on a different machine.
There might not even be a display on the local machine.
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