Thanks for your help.
This is getting damn flustering.
The objective was to make a small MySQL server of basely a telephone directory
of clients for our business.
What I have firmly established is that doing such with the current disarray in
Commercial Linux distributions, Red Hat, SuSE, and Mandriva, that that is not
possible for anyone on the lass that guru level.
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:34 am, Russell Hires wrote:
> Hmmm...apt-get install kde kdm
> or
> apt-get install gdm gnome
Believe me, I have tried this 6 times now 3 last night 3 today using both a
standard Debian Desktop Installation and a choose package installation and
all I have gotten is a installation that immediately installs apparently the
same command line installation. I am now downloading the disks but
considering that I have major issue with the other 3 other major
distributions I am not keeping my fingers crossed. At current download rates
I will have this downloaded in 4 or 5 days if things work well, more if not.
> Should be enough to get you going. KDE or Gnome both install gobs of
> packages, including kdm or gdm, though I like to spcifiy the kdm part,
> just to make sure.
X was not downloads nor was Gnome nor was KDE which is why I posted this. I
could have easily screwed up one time that would be one thing but 6 times
with complete setups. I don't think so. At least not so badly that I could
not get to the part where you choose packages.
I will state one thing though that is sure to get me flamed but from the user
perspective unless SuSE, Mandriva and Red Hat clean their act up fast.
Consider the typical small business is the group that could benefit most from
using Linus and that the typical small business is composed of 5 to 10 office
level personnel that would utilize computers. I personally can not imagine
any business type to switch to Linux until issues such as this are resolved.
No small business personnel is going to waist the time that I have put into
this in the last 2 weeks. Believe me they are not going to do it nor allow
any of their employees to do it either. Things are simply going to have to
work. ODBC and JDBC Connectors when install are going to have to connect
[Mandrake]. MySQL when started will not give error messages indicating MySQL
Server is not installed by will actually function [SuSE]. Kfish and Kbear
will work [Red Hat] {Did not even bother to check any futher with Red Hat it
is still so screwed up by the Blue Curve that I can not imagine anyone using
Red Hat.]
I will keep you guys informed but judging from quality of Debian and internet
install to say that I am less that impressed would be kind.
Thanks
SOTL
> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:09 -0500, SOTL wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 December 2005 10:27 am, Levi Bard wrote:
> > > > Choose Software to install = Manual Package Selection
> > > >
> > > > Question:
> > > > When and how does one get to choose packages for as one can see by
> > > > the above NO package selection was ever made.
> > >
> > > When you choose "manual package selection" , it expects you to be able
> > > to install packages manually. You can `apt-get install kde` (or gnome
> > > or enlightenment or whatever), or choose the other option next time
> > > ;-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Debianista!
> > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> >
> > I was expecting to get a list of packages that one could choose from with
> > that selection.
> >
> > Previous time I chose Debian Desktop Selection and got exactly the same
> > results the command line.
> >
> > Do you have any suggestion as to what one should choose. There are others
> > besides these 2 including MySQL server, Apache server, and ftp server to
> > recall a few of the ones I did not choose.
> >
> > Thanks
> > SOTL
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