Re: Installation of further packages
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:44:11AM +0100, stephan.sens wrote:
> My name is Stephan and I have a problem installing further packaged of debian
> on my computer.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html
> Unfortunately I have no Linux background and I am not able to install further
> packages?!
>
> My thinking was to download the first three ISO Binary images 31r3 on CD and
> start from there but it looks like that the right format is .deb or tar.gz. It
> was possible to unzip tar.gz files but after ./configure some error messages
> were displayed telling me compilers ect. are missing.
>
> What is the right installation procedure of the packages to build up a system
> from scratch able to office programs, to have internet access, be able to
> print? What can I do with these three iso binary images? Any use of 1.8GB of
> data and if yes, how can I use them?
>
> Sorry to bother you but I couldn’t find an answer to my basic question even not
> in my books which deals more with SUSE or Red-Hat.
>
> They make it easy just to mount CD1, CD2, … but I would like to build the
> system from scratch.
If you have no background why do you try to build your system from
scratch.
I know that there is a project to create debian from scratch but the
only "real" from scratch system is gentoo (aik).
> If there is any book you can recommend, please, do so! English books are
> welcome!
http://www.debian.org/doc/books
CU
Michael
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