Re: [orca-list] Debian 8 'Jessie' released

[Mike Ray <mike raspberryvi org>]

Hello,

David has said it all.  The net install is my preferred method and it is
totally accessible to someone who can see absolutely nothing, like me.

One step which may trip up the unsuspecting or inexperienced is the
selection of packages at the end.

You are given a list of what to install and asked to make a selection.
Your selection needs to be a space-separated list.  To get the Mate
desktop the selection line would look like this:

1 6 9 10 11

1 is for any desktop at all, 6 for Mate, 9 for a printer server, 10 for
the SSH server and 11 for general utilities.

There are also numbered choices for web server (Apache) and database
server (Mariadb).

If you omit 1 or one of the specific desktop flavours you won't get a GUI.

I'm too biased to answer questions about what distro is better,
particularly where the question includes the word 'Ubuntu', because I'm
a stolid and staunch supporter of Debian.  I think a lot of Debian
derivatives are irrelevant.  And I don't like the way Ubuntu tries to
hold my hand too much and hide from me stuff it thinks I won't
understand.  Had enough of that with Windows.

Mike

On 26/04/2015 16:18, Dave Hunt wrote:
> Since you've done this sort of thing before, it should not present too
> much difficulty, even though the installer is not a gui program.  I
> think you'll appreciate the fact that you don't end up with extra apps
> you can't or won't use.  Remember that your Mozilla browser is called
> iceweasel, and the thing you know as Thunderbird is called Icedove, and
> will have to be added post-install.  If you like seamonkey, try Iceape.
>  If you like console email agents, I think mutt is part of the default
> setup.
>
>
> Good Luck,
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On 04/26/2015 11:12 AM, Majid Hussain wrote:
> > thanks for the swift responce dave!
> > going to try this out,
>
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-- 
Michael A. Ray
Analyst/Programmer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK

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