Setting up Debian

[Colin McGregor]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I gave up on xubuntu, I ended up installing Debian 5.0.6 server only.
>
> 1) However, i'm wondering is there an easy way for me to add the latest xfce
> desktop. I guess I will also need to add X window support. How can I do this
> easily.

su
apt-get install xfce4

Lists of available Debian packages can be found in :
www.debian.org/distrib/packages

> 2) Also I want to configure my Debian system so it always boot into console
> server, I don't want to start X. How can I do this?

Here is an explanation : www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=145082

> 3) I added the following source, are there other source I can add for
> package management that is worth noting?
>
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

Sounds good to me.

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