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ImConfused
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New to Debian

#1 Post by ImConfused »

I'm hoping that someone can help with my question. I just finished installing Debian yesterday, I do my first boot and go through the password stage then it stops at another part where there is the name of my network, which I don't have one, had to disable in bios in order to finish install. But at this stage there is my name and a $ sign.
I dont know what to give at this point. All I want to do is get up and running, then I can figure out what I want to do with it at that point.

Lou
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#2 Post by Lou »

"I'm hoping that someone can help with my question. I just finished installing Debian yesterday, I do my first boot and go through the password stage then it stops at another part where there is the name of my network, which I don't have one, had to disable in bios in order to finish install. But at this stage there is my name and a $ sign."

That means you are 'user', type:

startx <Enter>

assuming you installed the X packages and a window manager, this should take you in a graphic mode.

"I dont know what to give at this point. All I want to do is get up and running, then I can figure out what I want to do with it at that point."

It seems to me you need to do some serious reading about Debian.

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#3 Post by Absent Minded »

Think Lou is right, sounds like you are sitting at a prompt. Which means "You are up and running" :) okay thats the good news. since you cannot use synaptics to install things yet I would recomend "apatitude" it seems to handle coralating things abit better than "dselect" . I wouldn't recomend getting tooo caried away selecting things just yet. Some basic things like mabe a GUI and the basic packages. After your GUI is up and running then Synaptics works great for selecting and installing. Also, I noted you had to disable your NIC .... You may need to add some places to get files from (repositories) if you dont have adiquit cd-dvd's availible. Mabe some one else will be nice enough to help with that as I am abit forgetful at times.

tommcd
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#4 Post by tommcd »

Absent Minded wrote:Think Lou is right, sounds like you are sitting at a prompt. Which means "You are up and running" :) okay thats the good news. since you cannot use synaptics to install things yet I would recomend "apatitude" it seems to handle coralating things abit better than "dselect" . I wouldn't recomend getting tooo caried away selecting things just yet. Some basic things like mabe a GUI and the basic packages. After your GUI is up and running then Synaptics works great for selecting and installing. Also, I noted you had to disable your NIC .... You may need to add some places to get files from (repositories) if you dont have adiquit cd-dvd's availible. Mabe some one else will be nice enough to help with that as I am abit forgetful at times.

tommcd
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#5 Post by tommcd »

Does debian have a synaptic package manager, like ubuntu does? If so, how do I use it?

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#6 Post by hellfire[bg] »

try to run the command synaptic. If it starts then you have it. However i think it is not installed by default (at least it was not in my case). To install it:
apt-get install synaptic (as root)

BTW synaptic is not a package manager. Ubuntu uses the debian package manager - apt (comes from Advanced Packaging Tool). Synaptic is simply a graphical user interface for apt. To learn more - man apt-get.
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