lucky13
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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,04:38 |
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| Quote (ny2cali @ Feb. 25 2007,14:03) | Hi all...I am 5-6 hrs new to linux (this is my first distro)
So far dsl has been working great and I have successfully accessed both my external dvd-rw and 80 gb usb drive. I went from live cd to a direct hd install (didn't want to try frugal yet.)
Anyway I am completely lost when it comes to the commands for add-on programs. |
Since you're using the traditional hard drive install, you should go ahead and enable apt and use apt-get (command line) or synaptic (GUI) add new programs from the debian pool. By default, you'll be set up for "old stable" repositories rather than the latest and greatest. I don't advise changing it because you're very likely to run into bigger, more serious issues.
There's a command in the menu (under tools) to enable apt in older versions of DSL (<3.2?). In more recent versions you'll need to download dsl-dpkg.unc from the DSL repository, etc.
| Quote | | I first tried to add gaim but when i tried to compile... |
DSL doesn't come with a C compiler, and you're going to have lots of dependencies to compile first if you want to go the route of downloading and compiling from source recent versions of GUI programs like that. An older GTK1 version of Gaim is available in Debian old stable pool, and you've already found the shiny happy GTK2 version in the DSL repository.
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