On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 16:24 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:05:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:12 -0500, Xinjiang Lu wrote: > > > If I get the point, aptitude can do it for you. > > > > Then don't use Evil Aptitude. Good, solid apt-get won't do those > > sorts of things. > > Use aptitude to install x-window-system-core, kcontrol, and > gnome-control-center. > This brings in enough of X, KDE, and Gnome to run any app. > Then add a few more packages as desired. > In particular, konqueror and/or nautlus. Use aptitude and almost > all the rest of KDE and/or Gnome will come in sans games and crap. > > Finally, install kdm or gdm with aptitude and the final bits will > come in. >
And as a coda, 'l ~s[gnome|kde]~g' makes it extremely easy to browse most of the uninstalled apps in your preferred desktop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]