[Wylug-help] Debian newbie

[Richardr.ibbotson@zetnet.co.uk]

Martin

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, you wrote:

> I finally got enough courage to install Debian 2.2 this weekend.
> I've been using Mandrake for nearly 18 months and thought I now
> knew enough to tackle Debian. Well, After a bumpy start[1], I've
> got myself stuck getting Netscape installed. I can't see any other
> netscape related packages on the three cd set, other than netscape
> 4.73 base - there don't appear to be any navigator or communicator
> packages (doing a search in dselect).

You should be using Netscape 4.75 or above.  There's a wopping=20
secruity hole in 4.73 which means you can't use it.

Got mine from the SuSE site.

> I'd also like to install KDE - any ideas where the .debs for that
> are?

If I remember rightly there aren't any .debs for KDE.  Onyl RPMs. =20
You can go to www.kde.org and donload the tar.gz stuff.  Then you'll=20
have to do  ./configure  make   make install to compile it.  Don't=20
use 1.93 it's still a little bit unstable.  You can also get a KDE CD=20
from www.linuxemporium.co.uk.

> [2] Using the w3m browser, which I've not seen before. It's
> certainly quicker than Netscape, but not quite a replacement ;-)

Konqueror is very nice but it'll be a few weeks before it's stable=20
enough

> [3] Apt (and Debian's package handling in general) is one of the
> main reasons for wanting to switch. It looks wonderful, once I can
> get my head round it.

Yeh, it is a bit head banging.  But, once you understand it it's=20
worth the hard work.

Thanks

Richard

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