Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > No wonder people say that Debian is the most difficult > Unix-clone distro to install and use...
Thanks for making contact with us here. I presume you've found your first experiences a little hard. I hope you stick wth us, when you'll be able to make a better judgement than "people". > Fisrt of all, since Debian is not widely supported > (as I have noticed; compared to otherdistros such as > FreeBSD or Red Hat Linux), there are not many mirrors > for me to download Debian sources for my installation. > In my case, the only mirror in my country (Indonesia), > does not have a complete archive. It is also not up to > date... I thought there were two, one of which (debian-mirror.piksi.itb.ac.id) appears to be at the same place as your email address. Is itb.ac.id a university there? Perhaps you could have a word with the admin people. > Another thing, is the dselect program: it is quite > difficult to use... Yes, ever more difficult too as the number of packages increases. But what dselect disguises is an excellent package management tool. You might find apt a better front-end to use. Try man apt-get. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
