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Wrincle
11-18-2004, 03:22 PM
How do I install programs? I tried the *chmod +x* command, and that worked on the aMSN .bin file I downloaded, but then I needed to get Firefox and it was a tarball. I tried .rpm's too with no luck (tried to use alien for it).
How do I install themes, like those from kde-look.org? How do I install Karamba, more importantly?
How do I change the screen resolution, and change the size of icons and things? One annoying thing that happens is when I minimize a window, and I can't find it ever again.
Thanks for support.
eco2geek
11-18-2004, 10:42 PM
To pick one thing (probably the most important thing) out of your list: With Debian, you don't need to install Firefox (or other programs for which Debian packages exist) from tarballs or RPMs, or download other binary installers. Use apt-get instead. Please read the "sticky" topic in the "Hdd Install" section of this forum named "Apt-get / dpkg tutorial".
Once your "/etc/apt/sources.list" is configured correctly, you go to a console, get root, and type
apt-get update && apt-get install mozilla-firefox
in order to install Firefox.
In order to see what installation candidates for Firefox are available to you, type
dpkg -l 'mozilla-firefox*'
or if you don't know the exact name of what you're looking for, go to the Debian packages search page (http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages) and enter a search string and choose the "Unstable" distro.
As you might guess from the above, you can install Karamba with the command
apt-get install karamba
Wrincle
11-19-2004, 02:15 AM
Thanks, Eco.
mimes
12-15-2004, 01:04 AM
For a very detailed tutorial for themes and such for KDE3.2 and up, go to: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15551
CrashedAgain
12-15-2004, 04:12 AM
How do I install programs?
See this http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15298 for an overview of installing programs in Debian.
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