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.
