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What Debian Packages do you have installed?
Just downloaded and installed my first .deb package. I needed the DVD player update and it installed just fine and DVDs now play just fine.
Just curious to know what other packages folks find useful or essential.
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LOL!
First I was going to post the output from the "dpkg -l" command.
Errr...I install most of my software using the Debian package system - be it download and dpkg, apt-get or dselect, so lots and lots of it.
As desktop I use Fluxbox, it's a lot less cluttered than KDE and Gnome and runs well on my older computers. It's lightweight and pretty. Terminal emulator - Eterm, the one and only. Pine and Thunderbird for email (T-Bird being one of the few apps I don't install using Debian's packaging system).
Really, really essential packages: wget, lftp, vim, vim (and vim-gtk). Those go a long way.
I could go on, but I really shouldn't. But I'm glad you have discovered one of the fine things about Debian.
hw
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--Let me get this straight... You use fluxbox because it's lightweight, and then use ETERM?!
--Just kidding.
--Software that I have found useful, but had to be installed after HD-install because it was not included or dropped from the Knoppix rev:
aptitude
bittorrent
ethstatus == Basic Network monitor
localepurge == Save disk space
memtest86
mplayer == Play movies
ncftp == FTP; can use Batch cmds like ncftpget
star == Tar from Joerg Schily, author of cdrecord - can split archive into CDR-sized chunks
vsftpd == Most secure FTP server daemon
xv == Pic viewer
--I keep track of all new/deleted packages and system changes in a text file, that's how I can rattle off a list like this.
Originally Posted by
hw-tph
LOL!
First I was going to post the output from the "dpkg -l" command.
Errr...I install most of my software using the Debian package system - be it download and dpkg, apt-get or dselect, so lots and lots of it.
As desktop I use Fluxbox, it's a lot less cluttered than KDE and Gnome and runs well on my older computers. It's lightweight and pretty. Terminal emulator - Eterm, the one and only. Pine and Thunderbird for email (T-Bird being one of the few apps I don't install using Debian's packaging system).
Really, really essential packages: wget, lftp, vim, vim (and vim-gtk). Those go a long way.
I could go on, but I really shouldn't. But I'm glad you have discovered one of the fine things about Debian.
hw
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I installed
latest kde alpha, (I like being on the edge)
bittorrent
xmule (guess...)
kmplayer + mplayer
lotz of plugins for xmms and other progs, skins (like liquid), wallpapers, screensavers etc
kopete (chat chat chat)
synaptic (graphical package manager)
aptitude (not-s-graphical package manager)
localepurge (diskspace indeed)
rafkill (nice raptor-like game)
and wolfenstein Enemy territory, but thats not a debian file...
guess there is even more... its so easy using apt-get...
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