**im installing debian and need somebody's assistance for an hour or so

[zayened]

ok...so i finished all the installing and am now up to the package selections....holy $hit is all i got to say to that! there are a TON of packages. how do i begin?

 

[zayened]

nobody wants to help? 🙁

 

[Nothinman]

The docs cover using dselect if that's what you want to use. Otherwise you can just hit enter, Install then after that finishes quit. You should be able to run tasksel and pick through certain groups of packges, otherwise you just need to 'apt-get install blah' to install whatever packages you want. 'apt-cache search blah' will do a quick search through the packages for you.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

And I remember flipping through dselect in potato and almost crapping my pants. That was oh, what, 4000 packages ago? 😉

 

[zayened]

why is there like NOTHING on my tasksel? here is what it shows...


---End-user-----------------------------------------------
[ ] Debian Jr.
---Localization--------------------------------------------
[ ] simplified Chinese environment
[ ] traditional Chinese environment
[ ] Cyrillic environment
[ ] French environment
[ ] German environment
[ ] Japanese environment
[ ] Korean environment
[ ] Polish environment
[ ] Russian environment
[ ] Spanish environment
---Miscellaneous-----------------------------------------
[ ] TeX/LaTeX environment




<Finish>_______________________________<Task Info>______________________________<Help>

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Ya can't scroll or anything? Most people just prefer to skip both tasksel and dselect, when you want to install something, just run apt-get, much more logical imo.

 

[Nothinman]

tasksel is kind of bare right now, although it the basic X packages and development, which are the only two I usually use. I just use apt-get/dselect to install anything else after the install.