[Linux-disciples] Installing GNOME on a new Linux box

[Adam Kessel]

apt-get always retrieves the most recent version available unless you
tell it otherwise.  That is the point of apt-get.

(okay, well "a" point of apt-get)

You need to pin your preferences on stable if you don't want it to
automatically fetch out of unstable.  man apt_preferences

Why didn't the CD install X?  Possibly because of the bad sector, or
maybe you failed to make the correct selections in tasksel?

The woody install is not totally robust, and I don't know how it would
handle a bad CD sector.  I think sarge is better in this respect and
particularly about choosing packages to install.

In any case, it is always a good idea to install a single distribution
first and then upgrade once all is up and running.

Or start with one of the sarge CD images.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 10:03:17AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:50:55AM -0400, Adam Kessel wrote:
> > Are you trying to mix distributions (i.e., stable and unstable)?  This
> > will screw you up on initial install.  Was your CD Woody or pre-Sarge?
> 
> I'm pretty sure my CD was Woody. The install went quite far
> pulling stuff off the network, then said, "Have fun!" and
> dropped me off at the command line. So I'm curious, for one
> thing, why the install didn't handle X and GNOME on its own
> -- why I had to go through and install it manually.
> 
> My sources.list contains both stable and unstable. If I did
> 'apt-get install gnome' (for instance), would it default to
> stable or unstable? I guess I just assumed it would default
> to stable, hence no installation problems.
-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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