On 8/12/05, Sam Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After installing Debian 3.1 I have found that a whole bunch of apps were > not installed at all. I would like to reinstall a fresh distro, but want > to ensure that I don't have the same problem of missing apps (e.g., almost > all the man pages). I think that I must have misinterpreted the > installation instructions during the install process. Is there a baby > version for those of us who are missing a marble or two from the old set?
The base installation of Debian has very few applications. Normally one installs them later with apt-get, aptitude, or one of the other apt frontends. For example, to install all of KDE, type as root: apt-get install kde or: aptitude install kde Aptitude is recommended, as it can remove unused packages later. However, if you decide to use aptitude, start early, as otherwise it can misclassify some packages as unused (just use aptitude install on them to fix it) You can also do apt-cache search <keywords> to find packages to install, and apt-cache show <package> for details on it.
