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This article is intended for beginners and those looking for tips and tricks to install [http://www.debian.org Debian Etch] in their systems. | This article is intended for beginners and those looking for tips and tricks to install [http://www.debian.org Debian Etch] in their systems. | ||
[http://www.debian.org Debian] is one of the popular and free ( Libre ) distributions of [http://www.gnu.org GNU/Linux]. Etch is the latest [http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/ stable] release and comes in multiple CD or DVD installations. There are also separate CD images available that install the KDE (or Xfce desktop) environment by default at [ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Debian/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r1-i386-kde-CD-1.iso debian-40r1-i386-kde-CD-1.iso] that can be downloaded from the Debian mirrors. | [http://www.debian.org Debian] is one of the popular and free ( Libre ) distributions of [http://www.gnu.org GNU/Linux]. Etch is the latest [http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/ stable] release and comes in multiple CD or DVD installations. There are also separate CD images available that install the KDE (or Xfce desktop) environment by default at | ||
ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Debian/debian-cd/4.0_r1 or other Debian morrors at http://www.us.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ | |||
and there is a [ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Debian/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r1-i386-kde-CD-1.iso debian-40r1-i386-kde-CD-1.iso] that can be downloaded from the Debian mirrors. | |||
However, users wishing to install alternate desktop environments can easily do so by adding boot parameters: tasks="standard, kde-desktop" for KDE and tasks="standard, xfce-desktop" for Xfce. Note that this will not work when installing from a full CD image without using a network mirror as an additional package source; it will work when using a DVD image or any other installation method. | However, users wishing to install alternate desktop environments can easily do so by adding boot parameters: tasks="standard, kde-desktop" for KDE and tasks="standard, xfce-desktop" for Xfce. Note that this will not work when installing from a full CD image without using a network mirror as an additional package source; it will work when using a DVD image or any other installation method. | ||
For the purpose of this installation, | For the purpose of this installation, [ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Debian/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r1-i386-kde-CD-1.iso debian-40r1-i386-kde-CD-1.iso] was downloaded in Mumbai, India from a Taiwanese mirror using the following command. | ||
'''wget -c url''' | '''wget -c url''' | ||
The -c option allows you to continue broken downloads. The hardware used for installation was Pentium4 2.4 GHz., Intel original 845 GEBV2 motherboard, 256 MB DDR2 RAM, 80 GB IDE HDD. | The -c option allows you to continue broken downloads. The hardware used for installation was Pentium4 2.4 GHz., Intel original 845 GEBV2 motherboard, 256 MB DDR2 RAM, 80 GB IDE HDD. | ||
This article deals with installation of this Etch-KDE single CD. | |||
===Installation=== | ===Installation=== | ||
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However it has a lot more stuff that may not be necessary so simply follow the steps below. | However it has a lot more stuff that may not be necessary so simply follow the steps below. | ||
Add the Debian multimedia repository to your ''/etc/apt/sources.list'' as given below. | Add the Debian multimedia repository to your ''/etc/apt/sources.list'' as given below, if not added earlier. | ||
#multimedia | #multimedia | ||
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Run this command to install that package. | Run this command to install that package. | ||
'''sudo dpkg -i dvd+rw-tools_7.0-4_i386''' | '''sudo dpkg -i dvd+rw-tools_7.0-4_i386.deb''' | ||
Now your K3B is ready and you can run it from the KMenu. | Now your K3B is ready and you can run it from the KMenu. | ||