On Tuesday 01 June 2004 1846, somebody named Sean Schertell inscribed this message: > Finally, an unrelated tip: If I remember right, the installer will ask > you to select which packages you want to install using dpkg and > something else -- don't bother with them except for apt-get. Once > you're done, you can just apt-get whatever you want.
I believe it gives you the option of aptitude, dselect, or tasksel. If you don't really know what packages you want, tasksel will give you a halfway decent running system and then you can just apt-get other stuff as you want it. Using dselect is usually just a pain. I used aptitude on my last install (it was on i386, though) to get X/KDE and synaptic and then did the rest from there. NRH -- It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. - Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
