Well, hi everybody, as I keep getting ./configure errors I'd like to know what you guys 'n' girls think that anyone has to have installed on his/her debian-system.
Yeah, I'm still a newbie and have to recognize I don't have no idea. I'm running on a TiBook III and followed the advices on the famous cattelgrid-page, sorry I forgot the authors name, only that I didn't realy do the network-install from the other ibook-page but installed from the first woody-cd and then, when, I think, debconf comes up for the first time I told it to use the http-sources instead of more cds and changed "stable" to "testing". I'm not sure if this was before or after tasksel came up, but I'm sure I did run it afterwards. I can't remember exactly what I choosed, but from the first part I choosed all except the scientific-stuff, form programming I choosed C, although I don't intend to become a C programmer. Furthermore I choosed ftp-server,to be able to interchange files, don't know if this was necesary, and later installed openoffice.org, apache,java, php and mysql. I'm writing this form within evolution in KDE3.1 so these I installed aswell. Or other things that told me the "linux cookbook" or I felt I need like xnap or mldonkey ;-) So to me it seems I do nearly have a complete system, but as these ./configure errors keep occuring... I'know, I should do it with apt but it seems that's not always possible. What do I want ? good question, I don't realy know, have a working system that does what I want ;-) using a mac... Well I could have sticked to Mac OS X, but I like the free software idea too much to let linux happen without me, so what i need my system to do for me is: be able to process what openoffice now does for me; organize my photos, I'm still searching, iPhoto was cool; publish these photos on the web, igal, with the help of some html editor, seems cool for a start, play movies and dvd > mplayer; the usual www-stuff, I still didn't find a fast-downloader, didn't ./configure; and yeah thats more or less it. don't know if quake or something like this works on linux-ppc, would be nice but not necesary. I don't mind reading a lot to get involved with linux or searching the web on these hints, only my problem right now is, that I only can connect when I'm in the university, and there I don't have so much time, got to learn something, as I spend the nights playing with linux. Sorry for make you read that much and thanks for any comment. benjamin ah, and if someone might point me out where I can find a DUMMY manual for whereami or ifplugd I would be very gratefull. ps: why is ftp-server and www-stuff blue while I write?
