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I've a HP B132L which someone else put woody on for me, but I'm nearly totally ignorant of how things work in linux. Can anyone tell me how to: a) find out precisely which version of woody it is (if there are different versions or patch levels or whatever)? I don't know how to relate woody to posts I see naming particular kernel levels etc. b) when it boots it automatically starts X and then KDM; I think I'd like none of the GUI stuff to start automatically but instead to start them by command if/when I want to. How do I do that? c) If I manage to have KDM not start, will the command: gdm start GDM up instead, assuming it is installed? d) how do I find out what software is installed? Eg *is* GDM/Gnome in my system, and if so, where are its libraries, if I want to explore its parameter files etc? -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to... (newbie questions)
Hello Jeremy C B Nicoll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've a HP B132L which someone else put woody on for me, but I'm nearly totally ignorant of how things work in linux. Can anyone tell me how to: a) find out precisely which version of woody it is (if there are different versions or patch levels or whatever)? I don't know how to relate woody to posts I see naming particular kernel levels etc. Check your package versions: http://auric.debian.org/~joey/3.0r2/ To make sure you use the latest version, add the security server and an Debian mirror to your sources.list and run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. b) when it boots it automatically starts X and then KDM; I think I'd like none of the GUI stuff to start automatically but instead to start them by command if/when I want to. How do I do that? Remove the symlinks for kdm in your default runlevel: rm /etc/rc2.d/S99kdm Or install rcconf (rcconfig?) and deselect kdm. Next time kdm won't start. You can start X using startx or /etc/init.d/kdm start c) If I manage to have KDM not start, will the command: gdm start GDM up instead, assuming it is installed? Not unless you tell it to. d) how do I find out what software is installed? Eg *is* GDM/Gnome in my system, and if so, where are its libraries, if I want to explore its parameter files etc? Try aptitude or synaptic. Or dselect. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to... (newbie questions)
Jeremy C B Nicoll wrote: I've a HP B132L which someone else put woody on for me, but I'm nearly totally ignorant of how things work in linux. Can anyone tell me how to: a) find out precisely which version of woody it is (if there are different versions or patch levels or whatever)? I don't know how to relate woody to posts I see naming particular kernel levels etc. To see your kernel version type uname -r. Each of the three Debian distributions may use one of several kernel versions. b) when it boots it automatically starts X and then KDM; I think I'd like none of the GUI stuff to start automatically but instead to start them by command if/when I want to. How do I do that? You need the update-rc.d program, which handles addition and removal of the relevant symlinks. man update-rc.d. c) If I manage to have KDM not start, will the command: gdm start GDM up instead, assuming it is installed? See above. d) how do I find out what software is installed? Eg *is* GDM/Gnome in my system, and if so, where are its libraries, if I want to explore its parameter files etc? dpkg -l will show a list of installed packages. Configuration files live in /etc. I think you should read the documentation on www.debian.org - as a newbie a lot of your questions will be answered there. And a good book on Linux - I used to recommend Running Linux but it has a bit of a RedHat bias. A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:54:24PM +0100, Jeremy C B Nicoll wrote: I've a HP B132L which someone else put woody on for me, but I'm nearly totally ignorant of how things work in linux. Can anyone tell me how to: a) find out precisely which version of woody it is (if there are different versions or patch levels or whatever)? I don't know how to relate woody to posts I see naming particular kernel levels etc. I don't actually know how one finds out whether one has woody release 0, 1 or 2, but there's very little difference. As regards the kernel version, see the 'uname' command. b) when it boots it automatically starts X and then KDM; I think I'd like none of the GUI stuff to start automatically but instead to start them by command if/when I want to. How do I do that? # rm /etc/rc?.d/S??kdm c) If I manage to have KDM not start, will the command: gdm start GDM up instead, assuming it is installed? AFAIK. d) how do I find out what software is installed? Eg *is* GDM/Gnome in my system, dpkg -l and if so, where are its libraries, if I want to explore its parameter files etc? Parameter files and the like are generally detailed in the relevant man page. Libraries are generally in /usr/lib. If I want more detailed information as to where the files are I generally pull the deb apart in /tmp and see what I get (ar -x foo.deb; tar xzf data.tar.gz). -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Thanks to all who replied either here or via private emails. -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
