Re: Newbie Debian user (cross post)

Walterius wrote:
Hi J.O. Aho,

Your reply seems very helpful, but it is ***way*** over my brand-newbie
head. Could you explain it as though you were teaching a three-year-old who
knew almost nothing about Debian? You could start by explaining what "see to
install xorg" and "run xorgconfig". After that, I think I could handle it.

Okey, I'll try, keep in mind I don't use debian at all


Imagine me staring at the command line after my boot, and then tell me how
to do the things above. I would be very grateful if you would/could take the
time to do so.

1. Login as root (it's possible to login as a normal user and then use su to get root access, but we skip that)

2. type and press enter: apt-get update
3. type and press enter: apt-get install xserver-xorg
4. type and press enter: apt-get install -t unstable arts fontconfig kdebase kdelibs
5. type and press enter: apt-get install -t unstable kde-i18n-fi

(step 4 is to install kde, step 5 is to install Finnish language support for kde).

6. type and press enter: xorgconfig
(answer the questions asked)

7. type and press enter: cp xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf
8. type and press enter: vi /etc/inittab
(move the cursor until it's over the '3' in the line "id:3:initdefault:" and press now the [Delete] button once, press now [i] button and press [5] and then [Esc] and after this hold down your [SHIFT] button and press twice on your [Z] button).

9. enter and type: init 5

This should give you a running KDE3.5 environment, if you want to use Gnome or the quite bad Gnome2, I suggest you make a query on google for "Debian install gnome".

If there happens to be things that changed, I hope someone who uses Debian will reply on this post and tell the changes.


//Aho
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