Well, for starters, the book probably has the "slink" release not "potato",
the current stable version. Bring your box in on Thursday when you have
access to a faster connection, and we'll upgrade you to "woody", the
development version. If you get a copy of "Seth's Sources with additions by
Mike", then you can pull in all sorts of weird packages. Remember, "apt-get
update" to grab the available updated package lists, and "apt-get upgrade" to
download all the new versions.
--Mike
"Timothy L. Bolz" wrote:
> Ok Seth + Mike and you other Debian users
>
> I went out and bought a copy of Debian GNU/Linux for $19.99 at
> SoftwareETC. It's a good deal you get an O'Reilly book "Learning Debian
> GNU/Linux" by Bill McCarty. I felt like I couldn't wait until next week.
> It was bundled by VA Linux.
>
> Ok, I got it installed. I don't think it was as good as install as some
> other distributions. I'm thinking the strength is once you have it
> installed you can us apt-get to get files from the net. The one thing it
> doesn't come with is kde. I used kde for most of my stuff. I know
> there's a way to get it.
>
> The one thing I tried is modprobe -a tuner and it doesn't look like Debian
> put that in their modules. That loads all the stuff for kwintv or xawtv
> for my TV card. I have to have this. Watching TV while on your computer
> is awsome.
>
> I was able to connect with wvdial but the couldn't connect to anything
> because it couldn't find a name server. I'll figure this one out I hope.
>
> I'd also like to get the gnome package up and running. I didn't know what
> installation to us so I used Work_std. I used dselect after that to get
> more packages. Once I get my connection going I can us the apt-get
> command.
>
> I did like how the window managers looked. There was real slick
> background in windowmaker. I just have to find out if apt-get can get
> more themes too.
>
> Does linuxconf work in Debian or is there another configuration tool like
> yast or linuxconf.
>
> BTW, they had one more copy of it over there. The book is more than half
> the cost of the package.
>
> Let me know about some packages to pickup.
>
> Tim
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