This may be one for the Debian FAQ--apologies in advance if you've been there before--but I haven't seen an answer to it yet.
I switched from Slackware (2.3) to Debian just a couple of days ago, and can't seem to get color (that's *colour* here in the UK) listings by default. Simply typing "ls" gives me the standard white on black, but I'd really like to be able to distinguish at a glance between files and directories etc. Using the "color-ls -o" command is the only way I can achieve this, and even then the colors are ugly defaults, ignoring the settings in /etc/DIR_COLORS. (These dircolors settings are displayed verbosely on log in, by the way.) So far I've installed the base package, basic TCP/networking, GCC and so on, ane everything's gone without a hitch. Checking the package details in Dselect, it doesn't seem that color-ls is dependent on anything I haven't already installed. I may be overlooking something obvious, but are there any settings/files I need to edit to get what I want? Color's the only thing I'm missing since switching from Slackware. In everything else, I'm delighted. Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Cheers, Chris
