Re: Just installes Debian
Kent West wrote:
I think he's expecting Synaptic to be a little more helpful; I just
installed it to see how it behaves, and when you search for "kde", it
finds the KDE section, but not the KDE metapackage. You can then
scroll through the KDE section and manually find the KDE metapackage,
but that's not at all intuitive for the newbie. What's worse is that
the description is not intuitive, talking about "official modules" and
not depending on development packages, etc; that's uninterpretable by
a newbie (I've got years of experience in Debian, and this description
doesn't tell me what the package is for!); it would be helpful if the
description said something like "if you want a basically complete KDE
system on your Debian, box, this package is all you need to install
(assuming you have X installed - installing the 'x-window-system'
package will take care of that part for you").
What might be even better is if Synaptic incorporated the functions of
"tasksel".
--
Kent
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