Hi I'm setting up Debian on a computer to be used as a part time web surfing box and to use as a developmental web server and to better learn about Linux as a whole. I installed potato but it didn't seem to easily allow me to grab newer packages I wanted. I managed to hose my system (at least from my point of view, I tried to install mozilla 0.9.3 and ended up with glibc2.2 errors and couldn't start anything).
So I started with a fresh potato with very little installed, changed my sources.list to point to unstable, did the apt-get update and apt-get dist- upgrade and then started slowly installing packages. I've been using dselect but it seems to get itself stuck into a weird dependancy thing so I need some advice here: 1)Can anyone suggest some reading material? I've searched and I've found lots of quick little how-tos that suggest that this is all pretty easy however my experience bears out differently. 2) should I use apt-get over dselect? 3)I see that there are some tasks - I sucessfully used apt-get install task-xfree86 (or something like that) to get X installed - is there a list of tasks anywhere? I can't find them with google. I know about tasksel, are those the only tasks defined that I can install? 4)Should I have installed a potato that more closely resembled the working configuration I want and then do the dist-upgrade voodoo? I'll come up with some more questions as I fight with this... Thanks! Chris
