On Mon May 06, 2002 at 11:08:11AM -0500, D. Michael McFarland wrote: > Hello All, > > After a hiatus of about a year, I've come back to Linux and have been > playing with my first careful Debian installation. Over the weekend I > did a minimal net install of potato starting with the compact flavor > of floppies, then used apt-get and some pointers gathered from this > list to upgrade to woody. Yes, I know I'm hanging onto the leading > edge by my fingertips and my timing could be better, but the machine > in question isn't doing anything critical and, anyway, it's been fun. > > Of course, I hit a snag, or I wouldn't be posting. I didn't install > XFree86 or any other X packages the first time around, thinking I'd > wait and get the latest of everything once I'd switched to woody. > That's turning out to be harder than I expected, with tasksel > complaining about a missing x-window-system task and all my other > attempts (with apt, etc.) failing for want of some component or > another, usually fonts. > > I've googled fairly hard on this and found a few related threads, but > I haven't found that one post I need: "Do this, this and this and > startx ought to work." A summary of the necessary steps, or pointers > to documentation I might have overlooked, would be most appreciated. > > I did a net install of woody a couple days ago, using a CD I burned from: <http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/releases/20020416> And I must say, debian absolutely rocks! I didn't hit a single snag, I couldn't believe how easy everthing was. I was up and running with a fully loaded system in just a few hours. And I mean loaded. Well, not bloated. I haven't install Nautilus or KDE2 yet.
I have decided that I will never again touch dselect. Not with a ten foot pole. You couldn't pay me enough to suffer the agony and frustration of using dselect. I used it extensively in the past, when I was running debian-ppc on a 33 MHz Quadra 800. Maybe I don't have as much patience as I used to. Anyway, the first thing I did after base install was try to install task-c-dev using dselect. What a nightmare. I gave up and used apt-get for that and everything else. So anyways, finally, in answer to your question, here is the recipe that I used which much success for installing X: apt-get install task-gnome-apps task-gnome-desktop task-gnome-net That's it! OMigod I couldn't frikkin' believe it. I made a few choices in questions that debconf asked configuring the xserver, and that's it. No dpkg --configure this & that, no apt-get -f install, no hand editing of XFree86Config. After the completion of the above command, I started X and it launched me into gnome, and even the wheel on my mouse worked. I have never seen it go so easy, except on Mandrake. I don't know, maybe I was just lucky. YMMV. You might consider posting what packages you have installed, what method you are attempting for further installation, what error messages you are getting regarding which conflicts &/or depends, etc. -- -CraigW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]