DebianEtch-KDE: Difference between revisions

[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. However there is a single CD Etch-KDE distribution [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] available that can be downloaded from the Debian mirrors. For the purpose of this installation, it was downloaded in Mumbai, India from a Taiwanese mirror using the following command.  

During package installation, the CD option was selected so there were no internet package repositories in the /etc/apt/sources.lst file. Use '''Alt+F2''' to open the ''Run Command'' dialog box and type '''konsole''' and hit enter. From now on the remaining installation will be done in this terminal window.

'''apt-get install sudo vim'''  

The packages are installed from the CD itself. [http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ Apt] is the default package manager for Debian based GNU/Linux distributions. To use the '''sudo''' command, first open a terminal and '''su -''' to open a root shell. Edit the /etc/sudoers file using '''nano /etc/sudoers'''. If you are comfortable with ''vim'' then use ''vi'' in place of ''nano''.  

Add a similar line as the root one and replace root with your user_name. Save the file and exit. Exit from the root shell and now you can use the '''sudo''' command for further setup.

After you have saved the file, do a '''sudo apt-get update''' to download the available package lists from those internet repositories.  

#[http://www.cups.org/ CUPS] For CUPS pppprinting support.

Cups-pdf is a utility to add a system wide pdf printer. To setup printers, enter localhost:631 as the url in a browser. The pdf printer is added by selecting 'Virtual Printer PDF' from the initial list. In the drivers list, select 'Raw Printer' and go ahead. By default, cups-pdf creates a folder called PDF in the home directory. It can be changed by editing the file /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf.

Open Office is available as an older version in apt, so DON'T install it. Download the file

Then untar it and inside its folders you will get a ''DEBS'' folder full of .deb packages and its subfolder called Desktop Integration. Get into the ''DEBS'' folder and use '''sudo dpkg -i *.deb''' to install all the deb packages. Then get into the ''Desktop Integration'' folder and install the last package using

'''sudo dpkg -i openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.3-9215_all.deb'''.  

This is a smooth installation of Open Office in Linux. The last package adds the menu items to the KDE menu.

For this section, all the links are taken from http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2812/how-to_setup_debian

However it has a lot more stuff that may not be necessary so simply follow the following steps.

Add the Debian multimedia repository to your ''/etc/apt/sources.list'' as given below.

After that install the multimedia packages using this command. Please note that these packages are non-free in nature and in some countries it may be illegal to use them.  

This is a long installation. Note that from the site's page, the totem-mozilla entry was removed as we don't use Gnome.

After this install [http://kaffeine.kde.org/ kaffeine] using '''sudo apt-get install kaffeine'''. If apt returns errors then follow its instructions to run '''sudo apt-get -f install''' to correct broken package lists. Then run the kaffeine installation again.