On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:37:26AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote:
> on Mon, May 20, 2002, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> > on Sun, May 19, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > On Sun, 19 May 2002 14:33:21 +0200
> > > "Robert Ian Smit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I know Debian is more difficult to install, but I hope I will benefit by
> > > > learning a lot.
> > >
> > > As you've no doubt already experienced, the Debian install is text based.
> > > No fancy GUI. But other than that I can't say that the install was trully
> > > any more difficult than any of the other distros that I've tried.
> >
> > Having done several Debian and RH installs in the past four months, some
> > curves:
> >
> >
> > Other odd'n'ends. A good set of TrueType fonts (the set that Legacy MS
> > Windows ships with somehow finds its way onto many GNU/Linux systems) is
> > pretty much a necessity. Configuration can't get much easier than this:
> >
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-XFree86-2.html
>
> At least on my unstable system, I just did "apt-get install
> msttcorefonts".
It can be done in testing/woody too. I have it and confirmed:
$ apt-cache policy msttcorefonts
msttcorefonts:
Installed: 1.0.0
Candidate: 1.0.0
Version Table:
1.0.1 0
70 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
*** 1.0.0 0
800 http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
This is not pure but nicer fonts.
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