Setting up Debian

[Rajinder Yadav]

On 10-11-07 09:11 PM, Colin McGregor wrote:
> 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.
>
>> Thanks,
>>

Thanks all, got more confidence to force ahead!

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