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installation giving me problems

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installation giving me problems

#1 Post by dev?l »

hi guys, sorry for disturbing but i ditched my head in a rabbit hole and now it does not seem to be coming out sooner.....So any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
I download the iso-image and tried installing debian 8.7. Everything went well but by the time i wanted to install it on my thinkcenter m93, i dont know whether it is windows10 or ubuntu 16.04 trying to block my installation :D....all other options will just fail at the point where i needed to make a partitioning. So i decided to take everything else off and just install debian. It did not work the only installer that worked for me was the non graphical installer...so i took that option and yes it did take everything else off and did create the grub menu on my hard disk. But when i boot into debian it just bring me a bash/console to login and then i cannot load any graphical interface to continue with. i tried many different tutorials for example i ran these:...
apt-get install kde-standard,

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 apt-get update

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 apt-get install aptitude tasksel
But it keeps bringing me same thing back and forth....

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"E:Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock-open (13: permissioin denied)" 

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"E: could not unlock the administration directory"
...I really out of my depths now....is there a way around n...Than you in advance.

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installation giving me problems

#2 Post by dev?l »

adding to previous post..the network setup was also unsuccessful. i had to set it up manually...

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#3 Post by arochester »

Are you Root?

Did you input su first?

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su
apt update

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#4 Post by dev?l »

i dont know if i am at root or not...but i have not done anything else except install.... and no i have used su.....is that rewuired first?...

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#5 Post by arochester »

Yes. It is required first.

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#6 Post by dev?l »

ok...sorry for the language text....i have burned the iso again this time with unetbootin...even though i have to manually configure the wlan by hand...it seem to be downloading now...let me see what it says now...It is asking me for the package manager...

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#7 Post by arochester »

Unetbootin is not recommended for Debian.

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#8 Post by dev?l »

which one should i be using then?..

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#9 Post by GarryRicketson »

Unread postby dev?l » 2017-03-09 13:58
i dont know if i am at root or not.
You can type in this command:

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whoami
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$ whoami
garry
$ su
Password:
# whoami
root
# 

 
The $ at the prompt means it is a normal user.
the # means it is root.

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#10 Post by arochester »

What system are you working from to burn the ISO?

Windows? Mac? Linux? Other?

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#11 Post by dev?l »

yes you r right...because it is only giving me the only a standard system utility option under software selection here...It is not bringing kde, gnome or anything else...should i continue or start a new installment?...

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#12 Post by dev?l »

win10 pro, thinkcenter m93 cpu i5 2.70....unetbootin and iso.image netinstaller debian 8.7

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#13 Post by dev?l »

ok even though i chose the graphical installer, i ended up with the same bash/console again....so let me run the

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su 
command and see what happens

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#14 Post by dev?l »

ok now it did carry out the download...so i how do i get the graphical interface now?...should i continue to

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apt-install
the kde or....

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#15 Post by dev?l »

can anyone point me to the right direction....i have not been able to still install any desktop....the tutorial says you have to first install tasksel and aptitude but it not working...

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#16 Post by arochester »

Which tutorial? Please provide a link.

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#17 Post by dev?l »

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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#18 Post by arochester »

Try again

Become Root by inputting

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su
Then

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apt install aptitude
What happens? What does it say?

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#19 Post by dev?l »

it says package 'aptitude' has no installation candidate...i dont even know what that means

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#20 Post by arochester »

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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