"mehdi" <mehdi@lavasani.co.uk> writes: > I was given an official set of debian linux as a present! You have extremely thoughtful people in your life. > I 've installed the basic operating system ( only using disk one out of 7 > disks). At the time of installation it didn't ask me to insert disk2 or > disk3 ... That's normal, particularly if you have an internet connection. > . The basic system has no graphical interface at all. I mount the > cdrom and check some of the disk, but I can't find the the Xwindow stuff or > gnome or kde. How can I install all this apt-get install kde xserver-xfree86 > ( I know I can download the RPM and install them. But I thought it > might be already in one of these disks). No, Debian doesn't use RPMs. RPMs suffer from dependency hell and other stupidity that makes them have something in common with MS Windows: They both belong to the past. -- .''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. debian.org aboutdebian.com
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