Re: Greetings and a minor rave!!
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.
YMMV.
Doug.
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