[Sussex] The woes of trying to install Debian woody.

[John D.]

On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 7:26 am, Steve Dobson wrote:
> Hi John
<snip>
> First I would like to make sure that you have the approprate xserver
> installed.  To do that I need to make sure that your configured right.
>
> Please edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change it to look like the
> following (as root):
>
> -------- Cut here ------------------
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US/main non-US/contrib
> non-US/non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
> non-free -------- Cut here ----------
>
> Then type the following commands:
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get install xserver-xfree86
>
> This will set you up to use the use the new Xserver that (from the
> quick search of the Net I just did) support your card.
>
> If you can't get it working with that then try "XFree86 -probeonly"
> and post the output here.  It might help.
>
> Failing that where do you live?  I'm trying to install a old SGI MIPS
> machine over my sloooooooow modem.  If you have ADSL I'm be round in
> a shot to help (with extra kit - just for testing you understand :-)
</snip>

Well, probably due to my ignorance, at the moment, I have tried to use "wget", 
the prompt says wget command not found. 

So I have used dselect and as far as I can tell, It's installed but the bash 
response is still "wget command not found" - Drat!

I seem to have lynx installed, but due to my apparent stupidity I can't get it 
to download either a different version of "wget" or the nvidia driver (I'll 
be off to have a look at the nvidia site again in a mo!)

Also, my stupidity factor means that I am struggling to modify my 
/etc/apt/sources

Is it just "/etc/apt/sources" or is it "/etc/atp/sources.list"

Oh and my "p.s." in my last post should have said "Lancing, with an adsl 
connection"! :)

regards

John D.