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

[Adam Kessel]

Oops! I meant to postpone that, not send it.

Oh well.

I wanted to add additionally that nvidia cards are infamous for requiring
proprietary drivers, at least for full functioning.  Especially for newer
cards.  You may have to go over and look at the nvidia linux website to
get it all straightened out.  It can be a major PITA.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 02:11:01PM -0400, Adam Kessel wrote:
> No no no.  gkdebconf is a GTK frontend to debconf.
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure is *in* package debconf.
> 
> To figure this out, go to a properly installed machine and
> 
> dlocate dpkg-reconfigure
> 
> and you'll see right away where the program is.
> 
> dpkg --configure is just part of the initial installation of a package,
> not reconfiguring.  Sometimes when apt gets killed mid-stream, you need
> to do dpkg --configure -a to configure all remaining unconfigured
> packages.
> 
> If you want the debconf dialogue, you do:
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure -plow package-name
> 
> Of course, you can always apt-get --purge remove and apt-get install a
> package to get the configuration dialogue back, but you shouldn't need
> to do that.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 02:04:38PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > Before someone nails me for not R-ing TFM, I just dug around
> > a bit and found that
> > 
> > a) there's a separate package for debconf documentation
> > b) within that documentation, it says that there is no
> > program called 'debconf'
> > c) one needs to run dkpg-reconfigure
> > d) dpkg-reconfigure doesn't get installed with dpkg
> > e) dpkg-reconfigure exists in 
> > 
> > gkdebconf - Helper to reconfigure packages with Debconf
> > 
> > I'm glad this is so blindingly clear.
> > 
> > Still chugging away ...
> > 
> > -- 
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> >   goes, is only in question between equals in power,
> >   while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer
> >   what they must.''
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