Setting up Debian
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 8 18:31:41 UTC 2010
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 04:40:43PM -0500, Rajinder Yadav 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.
If backports.debian.org has it, then you can use that. Otherwise,
you probably don't want to.
> 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?
Don't install xdm/gdm/kdm/wdm. Then just use startx when you want X.
> 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
Well there is debian-multimedia.org
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