[H-GEN] newbie setting up Debian

[Mark Venz]

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On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Sandra Milne wrote:

> try running tasksel and selecting everything that mentions gnome.
>
I have now tried this and I get the following:
a311_8359:~# tasksel
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package task-doc has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package task-doc has no installation candidate

How many choices should there be? I have only 39.

Then I tried:
a311_8359:~# apt-get install task-doc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package task-doc has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package task-doc has no installation candidate


> >Further to this I was able to log in via xdm, after I did the above, when I
> >logged in I would be returned to the login screen.
> >
> >I changed the default run level in /etc/inittab to 2, then entered startx and
> >recieved the twm test screen (3 different size xterms, a clock).
> >I change the runlevel to 3 with no change.
> >
> >So the questions:
> >How can start in X?
> >How can I luanch into a advanced window manager?
> >
> >system details:
> >Debain Linux 2.2 - I think the kernal is woody.
>
> um, i think u mean a 2.4.x kernel... which is not woody as woody is the
> name of the next release of debian.

so this just proves I have no idea :( now that's embarrassing

>
> >X -version 4.0.3
>
> omg, i'm running unstable and i'm an X release behind.... now that's
> embarrassing :-)
>
> Sandra.

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		after every stupid alternative has failed.
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