On 8/2/10 7:06 PM, juan gonzalez wrote: > all right, I have 2 questions. can I use .deb files on the the teminal > version? and can I upgrade from the terminal one to the desktop one? > and how? > > > Yes; if you just have a .deb (say, "whatever.deb"), you can install it with "dpkg -i whatever.deb".
However, as a general rule, you don't want to install .deb files directly, because if whatever.deb is dependent on whatsit.deb which is dependent on yeah_but.deb, etc etc, then it could quickly become painful to install a program. Instead, you want to use aptitude (or apt-get) to install a program. In this case, it'd probably be "aptitude install whatever", which will automagically install whatever and whatsit and yeah_but and whatever else might be needed. You can also run a curses-based (text-based) point-and-click style interface of aptitude by just running "aptitude", but honestly, that confuses me more than just using the command-line mode of aptitude. To install a graphical version of Debian, you just need to install X, along with some window environment/manager, such as KDE or Gnome or Icewm, etc. There are several ways of doing this: aptitude install x-window-system kde gnome icewem will install all the above. You can even "aptitude install synaptic" for a more guified package manager than is aptitude. Another way of installing a graphical environment is to run "tasksel", which will allow you to select from several tasks, such as installing a Desktop environment. But I'd go the "aptitude install x-win...." route. While in text-mode, try "aptitude install links" or "aptitude install lynx" for a couple of text-based web browsers. They can come in handy sometimes. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c5768bd.1020...@acu.edu
