* Douglas Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Dec 14 06:07 -0600]:
Package management is the cornerstone to Debian. The individual
packages are installed by dpkg but how they're selected, managed, and
have their dependancies resolved is the job of a package manager (that
then run dpkg on each
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 06:23:38AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* Douglas Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Dec 14 06:07 -0600]:
Package management is the cornerstone to Debian. The individual
packages are installed by dpkg but how they're selected, managed, and
have their dependancies
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
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:14:58AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
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
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:08:14PM +, andy wrote:
Hi all
I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have
become used to particular ways of maintaining my machine and also
became used to a certasin belt--braces mentality. I loved Slackware,
found tremendous respect for
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
On 11 Dec 2006, andy wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
steers?
mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also get
it, along with
Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 11 Dec 2006, andy wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
steers?
mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 17:10 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
I would probably expunge mplayer from my systems except for all the
.wmv files people like to send. :-|
Keep an eye on future upgrades, most players uses ffmpeg but not all are
updated (xine, gstreamer-ffmpeg etc.) to include the recent
andy wrote:
Thanks for your welcomes and recommendations. I look forward to
getting to know the new system. As I said I am very impressed,
although a bit confused too as I learn my way around. I haven't used
Gnome since RH 7.2 preferring XFce throughout my Slackware days, so I
am becoming
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Thanks for your welcomes and recommendations. I look forward to
getting to know the new system. As I said I am very impressed,
although a bit confused too as I learn
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:24:53AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
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I haven't
used Gnome since RH 7.2 preferring XFce throughout my Slackware
days, so I am
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:08 +, andy wrote:
Hi all
I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
used to particular ways of maintaining my machine and also became used
to a certasin belt--braces mentality. I loved Slackware, found
tremendous respect for the
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On Tuesday 12 December 2006 20:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to
say:
And gdm even lets you choose your window manager before you log in!
kdm also does, which is what I use. Usually I use KDE, unless I'm on
my backup machine in which case I use
Hi all
I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
used to particular ways of maintaining my machine and also became used
to a certasin belt--braces mentality. I loved Slackware, found
tremendous respect for the stable way Pat Volkerding put it together and
hello andy,
A document that is very handy Debian Reference
apt-get install debian-reference-en
link for file brower : /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.html
regards : peter colton
On Monday 11 December 2006 19:08, andy wrote:
Hi all
I'm new to Debian
Peter Colton wrote:
hello andy,
A document that is very handy Debian Reference
apt-get install debian-reference-en
link for file brower : /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.html
regards : peter colton
On Monday 11 December 2006 19:08, andy wrote:
Hi
congrats andy and welcome!
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:48:13PM +, andy wrote:
Debian Etch brings the user. This is *so* very cool.
word to the wise. do some reading and get a knowledge of the
differences between etch and testing and stable and tracking the
various flavors of deb. As you are
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:08:14PM +, andy wrote:
Hi all
I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
Hi Andy,
welcome to Debian. as of today the next stable release 'etch' has gone
into 'freeze', this is the last stage before it is released as 'stable'.
So, if
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:08 +, andy wrote:
I am still on a very steep learning curve, so would
welcome anyone's steer in terms of learning how to optimise my system
and good documentation for a Debian-n00b.
I'm not sure what kind of docs you're looking for, but I suggest you
check out
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:08 +, andy wrote:
I am still on a very steep learning curve, so would
welcome anyone's steer in terms of learning how to optimise my system
and good documentation for a Debian-n00b.
I'm not sure what kind of docs you're looking for,
Kevin Mark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:08:14PM +, andy wrote:
Hi all
I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
Hi Andy,
welcome to Debian. as of today the next stable release 'etch' has gone
into 'freeze', this is the last stage before it is
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
steers?
mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also get
it, along with various codecs of questionable legality from
www.debian-multimedia.org. I
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any steers?
Debian has very strong rules about free software (read the DFSG) so you
won't find these in the official repositories. You must add this to
/etc/apt/sources.list
deb
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
steers?
mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also get
it, along with various codecs of questionable legality
Welcome!
I too started with Slackware some ten years ago or so and in '99
started with Debian Slink, 2.1 and quickly moved to Potato, 2.2, when
it was released. You will quickly discover the Debian Way to system
administration. Debconf helps a lot amd packages generally have
sensible defaults
* andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Dec 11 15:50 -0600]:
Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any steers?
I've found that kpdf of KDE does a good job with PDFs. Only
infrequently does Acrobat do a better job.
I would probably expunge mplayer from my systems except for all
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:48:30AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any steers?
Debian has very strong rules about free software (read the DFSG) so you
won't find these in the
On Monday 11 December 2006 01:08 pm, andy wrote:
Hi all
I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
used to particular ways of maintaining my machine and also became used
to a certasin belt--braces mentality. I loved Slackware, found
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