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looks like a quote from a post of mine so maybe the finger points at me
howto:
do as above, add your debian mirrors and it will work ok, just take it slowly.
Use kde and gnome & other stuff from Sarge
Add unofficial if you like, be careful with backports.org - i don't use that because i don't need Xorg etc.
I changed to kdm as i prefer it to gdm.
Libranet seems to hold on to its 'customizations' automagically (Icewm setup etc).
One problem i had was a crash on logout from kde which i solved by disabling the kde sound system
(don't use it anyway). This does not seem to be libranet's fault.
I did'nt need any howto to do this and I'm basically just a user who wants stuff to work..
Never upgrade all packages without checking what apt is going to do to your system!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Especially when combining two distros like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Often apt wants to remove adminmenu whrn you do an indiscriminate upgrade to sarge, you have to uncheck a couple of other things to avoid it. It's worth it.
If you did a moderate upgrade, just updates it may be just to run upgrade again but chose smart upgrade and look what you're doing.
If you go for etch or sid with this I can't help you, haven't tried that.
Did you first install libranet without gnome and kde and then added Sarge with Gnome and or kde?
When I did this I installed libranet 2.8.1 with X and the lightweight window managers,
without gnome/kde and generally as little as possible programs, but letting libranet set up X, network etc.
Now I have a vpn connection and connect through web browser (laziness, it can be set up better) so i can't install anything from text mode.
So I needed a web browser and synaptic running to get further.
Then added mirrors for sarge, keeping most things in the libranet sources.list, some of it still works..
I think sarge is better stable in sources.list
This worked no serious trouble - far better than the other debian based distros i've tried lately
well, yes, it only takes about 15 minutes to get a libranet with X and these small desktops in place.
Then put in a sources.list like this one and install kde and or gnome _manually_
-just use synaptic, browse kde/gnome packages and put in what you want.
Quite a lot of clicking of course and takes some time but then you have control
-watch closely what dependencies apt wants to put in and what it wants to remove.
As for the sources list it should be ok: I have commented out the potentially problematic stuff and
some things i put in because of special needs (dkms, pptpconfig) and kde 3.4 (careful with that).
You probably don't want debian.no as that's a Norwegian server (but it doesn't really matter and may be a server with less traffic than others.
I posted my comments about this linux installation because i found to my surprise that it gave me a very easy installation (easier than pure debian) plus a system that worked better than mepis, ubuntu -and i don't like mandriva and found Suse 10 problematic.
that's all, I'm not interested in tinkering with anything, just to have it working.
ok I will give it a go
NOT sre how to chose what packages maybe gome to start with
but what about dependencies does the package manager tell what
depenabcies you need or should I use atp-get.
It could take a long time if there are many dep for each package.
yes I have tried suse 9.2 not 10.0 and even fredora, and even ubuntu for a short time but I do like the libranet style and the way it looks and works but 2.8.1 is old.
you simply install libranet, unchecking gnome and kde desktops, but choosing
X and desktop environment, this gives you Icewm as default and fluxbox
No need to choose individual packages although I prefer it.
other than that the installation is simple enough - i have difficulties imagining any snags yet...
Does this present problems to you?
Now you have a simple libranet system, with X and icewm and network up --??
Start synaptic and add debian mirrors, f.ex those in my list. Start adding gnome and kde packages one desktop at a time is best..
it did not take that long for me to build kde and gnome this way.
You can clean the package cache if you want.
keep adminmenu, uncheck it in synaptic after having requested a full upgrade.
--before pressing 'Apply', search for adminmenu, and unmark the 'remove' tag.
Say yes to any changes resulting from this.
(you can do that when you've built kde/gnome).
libranet-upgrade is not that important.
If adminmenu does not matter to you you can just go ahead, but it happens to be one of the attractions in libranet..
libranet 2.8.1 is old but upgrading to sarge takes care of that, then you can use the 2.6 kernel. Or go on to etch.
In synaptic you can check details before performing the upgrade.
Read the manual, these are things you can easily find out.
What do you mean the number of packages?
The debian archives contain zillions upon zillions of packages and software, you don't have to install all of it...
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