On 09/07/07, Richard Lewis richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk wrote:
Cool. Did you ask it to install any stuff automatically? I normally don't. I also normally don't install the great big, all-you-can-eat kde metapackage either. You can get a list of more subtle kde packages like this:
$ apt-cache search "kde.*meta"
The main ones are: kde-core, kdeadmin, kdenetwork, kdeutils, kdepim
Hmm ... I've seen this mentioned a few times on the web. Given I'm not excessively short on disk space, why would I not want to install the KDE shebang?
You'll also probably be looking for this some time soon:
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/mirrors.html
You should add the following to your /etc/sources.list:
deb http://mirror.home-dn.net/debian-multimedia stable main deb-src http://mirror.home-dn.net/debian-multimedia stable main
but be aware that these packages have a habit of moving on an almost weekly basis.
You will probably also want to do this:
$ su # cat 1> /usr/sbin/apt-add-key #!/bin/bash gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv $1 && gpg --export --armor $1 | sudo apt-key add - ^D # chmod 750 /usr/sbin/apt-add-key
and then when apt complains at you that it can't find the gpg key for various sources, just get the key id and pass it as an argument to that script:
# apt-add-key 07DC563D1F41B907
Though you probably know all this already.
Have fun!
Thanks Richard!
I've done most of these kinds of things before on other distros but it's very handy to have a debian-specific guide. :) I have to say, so far, I am finding the debian community a bit more fragemented than, say, ubuntu. Still, only just started ... :)
Peter.