See, I'm trying to know what I'm doing before I do it. I like apt-get but I want to know what it does before it does it, so to speak. I don't want to just slap everything on the machine and then find out where it gets put. Finding out after it's installed makes it difficult to determine purpose and document. Sam. Simplicity is in the eye of the beholder, after the the technical guy made it work. Scot Jenkins wrote: >Sam, >I'm thinking this is probably the easiest thing to do: > >apt-get install -s mozilla --OR-- >apt-get install -s afterstep > >the '-s' says to show what it would do without actually doing it. >both mozilla and afterstep will require X11. Once you see what it will >do, just rerun without the '-s' option and it will install what's >required. Debian rocks. > >other options: >tasksel, dselect, aptitude (my personal favorite) for selecting >individual packages. > > >Sam MacDonald wrote: > > >>I just installed Debian base on the machine that was a Redhat 6.X box. >>I was looking at the debian site trying to figure out how to do a >>minimal installation of X windows. Looking at all the packages under >>http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/ confused me a bit. I looked at >>the howto and I went in to denial. I don't want every feature, >>application, etc,, that comes with Gnome or KDE. I really like >>Afterstep so that's the direction I want to go. I find that using a >>minimal set of tools lets me understand the internals of any system and >>reduces the clutter. To much stuff is just, to much stuff in my book. >>(KISS = Keep It Simple Sam) >> >>"Does anyone have or know of websites I can read that will help me >>better understand the internals of X windows?" I know I will need >>Xfree, Afterstep, and other components to make this work. X windows has >>just boggled my mind when it comes to configuration. I had times when >>it just doesn't work because I don't understand what to tweek to get it >>to run. >> >>What I presently have installed is Debian 2.2.20, ssh, samba, vlock, >>apache, mysql, joe, and php4. I want X windows so I can use a graphical >>HTML editor (unknown). Once X windows is installed I'll install Mozilla >>and thats about it. >> >>Eventually I want to have only Linux "servers" in the house and moving >>to the desktop when I can get more up to date hardware for my kid's so >>they can run Wine or other windows emulator for the games they like. I >>also need to be able to support the environment so it doesn't drive me >>crazy. >> >>I have these websites bookmarked for study. I have found having more >>then 1 source of information is important. Each community has it's own >>resources and ideas on how to do things that help in learning. >> >>http://www.x.org/ >>http://www.xfree86.org/ >>http://www.afterstep.org/ >> >> >>Thanks >>Sam. >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list