Hello, I'm new to the Debian distro, and relatively new to Linux in general (was using Red Hat until its security issues began to bother me). Go easy on me :)
several questions: 1. I can only run 'xinit' or 'startx' as root, running it from my regular acct says that I don't have permissions to use it. Any suggestions? I'm using xf86config to set it up 2. I'm really confused when it comes to the packaging system for debian. Although RPM was a big reason for *leaving* Red Hat, I'm kind of put off by 'dselect', and even more by 'dpkg'. I bought the CD's from cheapbytes.com, it's a 4 CD set, 2 binary, and 2 source...perhaps I'm doing soemthing wrong, but was something as simple as Pine left out of the distro? Anywho, basically, I guess dselect is the easier way to do things, but I can't even find Netscape in there. Is there a page onthe web or perhaps a HOWTO that describes these two things? 3. In RedHat, the 'su' command allowed and '-l' switch, which would take the path settings of user to be su'ed to (ususally root in my case)...any way to do that with the debian 'su'? thanks so much!! -lev
