Re: newbie can't install 3.1

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Jon Dowland wrote:

> Kent West wrote:
>
>> #apt-get install aptitude
>>
>> #aptitude install x-window-system kde gnome icewm wmaker fluxbox
>>
>> (This assumes you've got plenty of free drive space, say a couple of
>> hundred megs.
>
> The 'desktop environment' task, which does not include
> icewm/wmaker/fluxbox, but does include the other three there, is 1.5GB
> unpacked - I think a couple of hundred megs might be an underestimate :)


"Yeah, 220, 221, whatever it takes."  :-)

(Quote from the Michael Keaton movie "Mr. Mom")

Thanks for the correction, Jon; I had no idea those three were that huge.

-- 
Kent