I just installed Debian 2.0 on my new Dual PentiumPro box. IMHO, It's got some real plusses, and some definite minuses as cmpared to RH 5.x...
My real problem right now, is that X seems to have installed itself without Xwrapper, and only root can launch X! I don't want to setuid the xserver, and I can't find a .deb for the wrapper. Also, the Netscape .deb packages from contrib seem very broken. They will not install, complaining that original .tgz files must be named specifically, located in /tmp, and owned by root. I suppose I could get the originals from NS, but that sort of defeats the purpose of maintaining a package system. I used alien to convert RedHat's Netscape 4 .rpm's to .deb. These installed with dpkg, but do not function. The executable exits, reporting it will not allow execution as root (!). Is this related to missing Xwrapper? I have su'd as a regular user (as non root cannot launch X) and Netscape barfs, unable to copy files to the home directory ("* not found"). All in all, I was interested in the technical superiority touted for the new Debian (particularly the management of legacy libs), and have been inclined towards a more "GNUishly blessed OS. I hope someone can help here, otherwise I slink back to RedHat... Thanks, == Jeremiah Cornelius "Been there, done that, and have the T-shirt." _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com