Debian: Lenny is Funny

[MetalheadGautham]

Hi All

I have just successfully switched to Debian Lenny from Ubuntu hardy.
Its taking a while to getting used to, but I hope I learn soon.
I thought I may ask some questions about debian here.


Here is my diary about the Debian install:




This installer is too damn easy to use. Its fun. W00t! install completed.
GRUB looks better than in ubuntu. WTH is this only 5 seconds wait time ?

WTF ? Login in text mode ? K no problem.
Guess KDE is not installed
sudo apt-get install KDE
sudo command not found
hehehe even sudo is not installed by default
time to leave
hard reboot via restart button
lets try single user mode
WTF ? I forgot my password
Woops. I guess I didn't forget the password after all. It was just slightly lengthened.
apt-get install sudo
thats better
apt-get install kde
insert CD ?
ok fine. here you go
inserted CD
darn, I think the net is too slow
15kbps download speed for 2280kb
rest from CD
this install is boring
let me play guitar a bit
w00t! install finished
exit
yay! KDM!
omgwtf ? kstartupconfig not installed it says when I log in
time to go back to root mode
apt-get install kstartupconfig
package does not exist
damn you
time to go to sleep. will worry later
so it turns out I don't have permission to view my own home folder
reboot, go to windows mode, safe mode with networking
find out the darn command for loading the list
#think-digit @ chat.freenode.net

QwertyM: I don't help distro hoppers and windows users unless I am bored
Me: fug you
aditya|movies: chown gautham /home/gautham -R
aditya|movies: chgrp users /home/gaytgan -R
Me: Thanks bro
reboot
yup problem fixed
time to configure debian
wait a sec, damn I lack sudo privilage
restart
google
visudo was the command this time

found I need to add gautham ALL = (ALL)ALL after a line root ALL = ALL(ALL)
ctrl+X to exit, Y to save

confirm my findings
go to #think-digit again
aditya|movies: useradd -G root gautham
me: you sure ? here is mine...
aditya|movies: whats visudo ?
me: guess I shall try both in that case
wow, editing worked
damn aditya's methord said user already exists
exit
haha I am a sudoer now
time to really mess with debian now
configuring is fun
I R 1337 themer
lemme make my own theme, because default configuration sucks
purple is good
wait a sec, net was slow because debian uses BSNL DNS by default. my mistake.
OpenDNS FTW !
Time to try out more stuff
I don't have a proper sources.list file
can someone get me a good one ?



is there anything out of ordinary there ? I will keep updating...

[hullap]

Maybe try aptitude install synaptic

EDIT
after some googleing i found this http://wiki.debian.org/Synaptic

[MetalheadGautham]

Maybe try aptitude install synaptic

EDIT
after some googleing i found this http://wiki.debian.org/Synaptic

i am on kde

no synaptic and gnome software:mad:

[Pat]

Yeras ago there used to be one called KPackage..Not sure if it still exists though!!

[praka123]

well,why not understand almost all packages of ubuntu is available in Debian?
repositories for debian?
http://www.debian-multimedia.org
http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian
http://www.rarewares.org/

these will be enough.
and remember I have seen with Kde installed, anyways you somehow need some gtk apps.so you already may have libgtk2 installed.no pain ,install synaptic.

I think you mistook debian :?:

[MetalheadGautham]

well,why not understand almost all packages of ubuntu is available in Debian?
repositories for debian?
http://www.debian-multimedia.org
http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian
http://www.rarewares.org/

these will be enough.
and remember I have seen with Kde installed, anyways you somehow need some gtk apps.so you already may have libgtk2 installed.no pain ,install synaptic.

I think you mistook debian :?:
well, I have installed kpackage by default and I need adept.

I remember Roberto's Rare Wares, but its for multimedia audio encoding, etc. why did you of all ppl install it ?(I definitely abused rarewares on windows)

anyway, after installing GTK2+, howmany libraries are needed for gnome ?

can I force install of Gnome 2.18 instead of 2.22 ? (2.22 is a white elephant)

and debian multimdia lists only stable packages.
can I use them for testing ?
are they latest ?

finally, can you get me the apt lines directly ?
I am having difficulty finding them.

Bump:

I am considering Sidux as an alternative instead of Debian Lenny.
Lenny for some reason looks like it was built in a hurry.
I don't have half the packages I guess I need.
Startup and shutdown time are blazingly fast.
The distro is also highly responsive.
But I am still not sure about many things here.

So I am considering Sidux. How fast is it compared to normal Debian ?

[praka123]

sidux is good.
debian multimedia or rarewares have testing and unstable repositories.check for yourself!

[MetalheadGautham]

sidux is good.
debian multimedia or rarewares have testing and unstable repositories.check for yourself!
Thanks.
I am installing sidux in some more minutes.
I finished burning it.

I just saved Rs. 408/-, because I decided to stick with getting myself a blogger account instead of a hosting from Faizal(Cyrus_The_Virus) for this one year. So with luck, I can also buy myself some extra ram.

So I can expect a REAL performance boost in a few weeks If luck is still on my side.

Again, Prakash, can you please give me a copy of your kernel ? We both have the same configuration, so I think your customised kernel can do wonders for me.

[praka123]

my kernel?well it aint that customized,but sure used zen sources.even it may ask for dependency esp glibc and all.

If you want a good faster optimized kernel install 2.6.26-rc3-zen0-x0-core2-smp2 from rarewares.org.beware nvidia doesnt have support for 2.6.25+ kernels yet.but rarewares provides nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-rc3-zen0-x0-core2-smp2 .

[MetalheadGautham]

my kernel?well it aint that customized,but sure used zen sources.even it may ask for dependency esp glibc and all.

If you want a good faster optimized kernel install 2.6.26-rc3-zen0-x0-core2-smp2 from rarewares.org.beware nvidia doesnt have support for 2.6.25+ kernels yet.but rarewares provides nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-rc3-zen0-x0-core2-smp2 .
OK, will try the rarewares kernel.
I don't give damn to nVidia because I am just another poor intel user.
Time to install Sidux. Perhaps I will do it tonight.