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Just installed 3.1-R3 Now what?I just installed 3.1-R3. I think... there are several things I expected to see loaded, but can't find. Now what? More specifically, how do I configure and use KDE, Gnome, a window manager - all that GUI cripple stuff? I chose a desktop installation, but the question of GUIs never came up during installation. I have 20+ years managing UNIX, VMS, DOS, Windows, Red Hat, Mandrake, and yes, debian, at the command line. For other Linux distros, startx used to do the trick (many moons previous). I know that I have several packages to install. Is there a current list of which packages do what? Is there a list - or better yet, a tool, to help me with apt-get when I have the first 3 CDs plus 12 unburned ISOs full of packages. How do I know which CD has the package I need? Is there a way to work from those debian ISOs without burning CDs? Can I install or load the ISOs to disk and manage the packages from there? As an aside, why is 'find' completely useless in deb31? It can't find itself, or anything else. 'locate' works well, so I can navigate the nuts and bolts. Thanks in advance... Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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If you selected 'desktop' I would have at least expected Gnome to be there. Perhaps even that isn't on CD1 anymore - you can use 'apt-cdrom add' to add the CD2 and even CD3 and then try to install the graphical stuff again via:
tasksel
Yes you can use the ISOs without burning a CD:
1. mount via the loop device:
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /the/file/name /the/mount/point
2. edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to the mounted iso image; use the 'deb file://' syntax.
You might want to write a small script to mount the iso files to different directories if you use this method.
If you want a minimal X system with only your choice of GUI, use 'aptitude' to select instead of 'tasksel'. You will need X11 client/server and a window manager - if you don't want to use the 'startx' scripts, you need to install a 'desktop manager' as well.