Linux commands

[GLS-Ausmines]

I am new to Linux, just installed Debian 3.0r1 to and including the basic setup. The OS appears in text mode, and I could not get further than logging in, having no clue of OS commands.

Questions:-

1. Is there any Internet access to Linux commands? (I have not found any at Debian and Redhat sites.)

2. Gnome, KDE, X interfaces do not appear - How to invoke them?

As it is, the installed Linux is a dead page.

Thanks.

G.L. Seymour

[Roberto Sanchez]

--- GLS-Ausmines <ausmines@bigpond.com> escribió:

> I am new to Linux, just installed Debian 3.0r1 to and including the basic
> setup. The OS appears in text mode, and I could not get further than logging
> in, having no clue of OS commands.
>
> Questions:-
>
> 1. Is there any Internet access to Linux commands? (I have not found any at
> Debian and Redhat sites.)
>
> 2. Gnome, KDE, X interfaces do not appear - How to invoke them?
>
> As it is, the installed Linux is a dead page.
>
> Thanks.
>
> G.L. Seymour
>

G.L.,

First of all, welcome to the wonderful world of Debian. Please make sure to
turn off html for your mail messages to the list. Many folks here use
text based mail readers, and it makes the messages unnecessarily large.

1. Are you using Cable/DSL, dial-up, local network? It is difficult to help
you diagnose network connectivity issues without knowing how you are trying
to connect. Please provide plenty of detail.

2. Once you are logged in, you can execute 'startx' to bring up Xwindows if
you have it installed. If it is not yet installed, you can run 'apt-get
install
kde' or 'apt-get install gnome' to get a basic graphical system installed.
Since you are having trouble getting out to the net I assume you are using
the installation CDROM, so you will need to simply insert it when prompted.

Regards,

-Roberto Sanchez

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[Salman Haq]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, GLS-Ausmines wrote:

> I am new to Linux, just installed Debian 3.0r1 to and including the basic setup. The OS appears in text mode, and I could not get further than logging in, having no clue of OS commands.
>
> Questions:-
>
> 1. Is there any Internet access to Linux commands? (I have not found any at Debian and Redhat sites.)
>
> 2. Gnome, KDE, X interfaces do not appear - How to invoke them?
>
> As it is, the installed Linux is a dead page.
>
> Thanks.
>
> G.L. Seymour
>

1. try: [url]http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r10735/unixcomm.html[/url]
Google will be a useful resource here. Also try snooping around in the
Debian documentation pages.

2. Assuming you have installed and configured X11, type 'startx' at the
prompt.

... salman


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[Kent West]

GLS-Ausmines wrote:

> I am new to Linux, just installed Debian 3.0r1 to and including the
> basic setup. The OS appears in text mode, and I could not get further
> than logging in, having no clue of OS commands.
>
> Questions:-
>
> 1. Is there any Internet access to Linux commands? (I have not found
> any at Debian and Redhat sites.)
>

Assuming you have networking installed/configured, you can use "lynx" or
"links" or other apps or text-mode web browsing; you can use ftp and
sftp and telnet and ssh; you can use exim+mutt for mail, etc etc etc.

Try something like "lynx www.google.com" to go to Google. If you get
something like "lynx: command not found", try "apt-get install lynx" and
then try the web.

> 2. Gnome, KDE, X interfaces do not appear - How to invoke them?
>

You probably don't have enough of the X-related packages installed. Try
installing the following:

xbase-fonts
xbase-clients
xserver-xfree86
kde

and see how far along that gets you.

> As it is, the installed Linux is a dead page.
>
> Thanks.
>
> G.L. Seymour

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[ajlewis2@intac.com]

In linux.debian.user, you wrote:

>
> 1. try: [url]http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r10735/unixcomm.html[/url]
> Google will be a useful resource here. Also try snooping around in the
> Debian documentation pages.
>
> 2. Assuming you have installed and configured X11, type 'startx' at the
> prompt.
>
> ... salman

When using google for a linux question, it is helpful to use
[url]http://www.google.com/linux[/url]

Anita


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[Anthony Rowe]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 04:49:06AM +0000, Alan Connor wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 05:50:07 +0200, GLS-Ausmines <ausmines@bigpond.com> wrote:

> > 1. Is there any Internet access to Linux commands? (I have not found any =
> > at Debian and Redhat sites.)
> >

>
> [url]http://rute.sourceforge.net[/url]
>
> can be very helpful

Yes indeed. Nice document. It's thorough and well written.
Thank-you for the pointer.

> Alan

Alan, I think you posted this to the newsfeed only, so people on the
debian-user mailing list would never see it (at least it isn't showing
up in the archives). I notice

User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux)

in your headers. linux.debian.user is only a newsfeed from the list
and not a newsgroup on Usenet as such. You need to use a mailer to
post to [email]debian-user@lists.debian.org[/email].

Tony


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[Alan Connor]

In response to:

From: [email]ajlewis2@intac.com[/email]
Newsgroups: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Linux commands
Reply-To: [email]ajlewis2SPAMFREE@intac.com[/email]

In linux.debian.user, you wrote:

>>
>> Alan, I think you posted this to the newsfeed only, so people on the
>> debian-user mailing list would never see it (at least it isn't showing
>> up in the archives). I notice
>>
>> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux)
>>
>> in your headers. linux.debian.user is only a newsfeed from the list
>> and not a newsgroup on Usenet as such. You need to use a mailer to
>> post to [email]debian-user@lists.debian.org[/email].
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>

>
> Thanks Tony. I guess I'll just finally have to figure out how to get slrn to
> send the post as an email......:-) "The crafte so long, the lyfe so short."

> (Chet Ramey's great sig. From Chaucer, I believe.)
>
> Alan

I'm doing just that. I just hit 'r' for reply instead of 'f'. That puts me
into my editor. I change the address at the top from the poster's address
to [email]debian-user@lists.debian.org[/email]. Then I write and send.

Anita

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Thanks much, Anita. I wrote a function in my .bashrc thats working pretty
well, but will try that. (gotta run it through sed to prepend the >)

ldu () {

echo "Enter Subject:" ;
read NN ;
mutt -F ~/.2muttrc [email]debian-user@lists.debian.org[/email] -s "$NN" -i draft ;

}

Tried to pipe the articles, with |, to mutt but it hasn't worked so far.


Alan



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