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installation giving me problems
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Re: installation giving me problems
https://wiki.debian.org/KDE.....i have installed the tasksel but the other one aptitude is not working...it says
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package 'aptitude' has no installation candidate
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Re: installation giving me problems
Try again
Become Root by inputting
Then
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Become Root by inputting
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su
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apt install aptitude
Re: installation giving me problems
it says package 'aptitude' has no installation candidate...i dont even know what that means
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Re: installation giving me problems
Try
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su
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apt update
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apt upgrade
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apt install aptitude
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Re: installation giving me problems
Do you have Ubuntu 16.04 on the machine? If so, please install inxi in it and give us the results of
in a terminal there. Debian 8 dates back to 2014 and can lack hardware support for newer machines, though that can be worked around by updating some packages from a special backports repository.
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inxi -F
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Re: installation giving me problems
@stevepusser no Ubuntu I tookout whilst installing Debian....Windows will never get into this machine again...why try to control me on my own pc...
Re: installation giving me problems
@arochester...its still says the same...I just can't understand why the installation can't give me default desktop options... .
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Re: installation giving me problems
If it's newer hardware, which Win 10 indicates it might be, Debian 8 can have trouble with the graphics. I indicated that in my last post, though I said hardware, because it's not just graphics it can have problems with.
Do you have any Live DVDs or USBs that we can use to get some idea of the hardware on that machine? Can you try Debian 9?
Do you have any Live DVDs or USBs that we can use to get some idea of the hardware on that machine? Can you try Debian 9?
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Re: installation giving me problems
Actually am comfortable with bash bare bones...I write python codes on daily basis on cmd...but this is my first crash with Linux...if you know some good resources I can try digging....
Re: installation giving me problems
I run legacy boot...on Lenovo thinkcenter 64bit i5 2.70....the WiFi got issues but managed dealing with without whining...but this time am really in the rabbit hole..