On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:11:58 +0530 Amrish Purohit <amrish.dis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Osamu, >Thanks for your reply. I will definitely try installing testing over >stable version. I make my system dual boot so I have a backup. Here is >the way I install the debian, please correct me if I am wrong. >I install the core system, then I install gdm3 and gnome-terminal to get >the GUI. After getting the GUI I install the packages as I need it. So I >plan to do the same with testing. First I will install core system + >gdm3 of stable debian, after getting the gui, I will change the >repositories in /etc/apt/sourcelist and make dist upgrade. I hope this >will work. >Please comment if any thing is wrong. Two points: - Wouldn't it be better to change the source.list to debian testing straight after installation? That way you will not need to download Gnome packages from stable, saving bandwidth and time. - If you want Gnome, it is probably better to use tasksel[1], so that all the Gnome-related goodies are installed and configured. Installing just login manager and terminal application will only bring in minimal necessary dependencies, giving you a rather poor GUI experience - you might as well stay in text console. 1. http://wiki.debian.org/Gnome#task Regards, -- Andrej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120113225335.388635b5@penny