Re: Greetings and a minor rave!!
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:14:58AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:52:50PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > > The biggest thing I've learned is to install things a bit at a time;
> >
> > I'd agree with that.
> >
> > > Lets say you choose aptitude, then you install that ... Then I install mc followed by lynx. Then ... documentation packages ... [then] exim4, mailx, mutt, and fetchmail.... The __last__ thing to install is X.
> > >
> >
> > But I usually install X and Icewm early on (just after lynx and ssh and
> > sudo); I likes me graphical environment, yeppers. Then I toss on the
> > fluff, KDE, OO.o, FF, T-Bird, etc.
> >
>
> The problem is that sometimes installing a package breaks X for some
> reason. If you use a graphical app for package management, ensure that
> you can use a command line app when X breaks.
I usually install X early, since if that breaks and makes the system
so unusable that reinstallation is advised, I'd like to find out early.
Of course I always do my package management in aptitude in the text
console I get to with ctrl-alt-F1.
-- hendrik
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