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Ok im very new so please be understanding

installed debian ( don't know if i did it correctly) but... I get to the
screen where you login on the cmd line.

I log on as administrator, root or my username but I cant get anything
to happen.

Really want to get into debian. need help for beginners please!!

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not seeing stars?

Submitted by jamei on Sun, 2006-10-29 02:22.

when you say "I cant get anything
to happen", do you mean that you cannot see any output on the screen when you type your password (eg the stars ******)?

This is normal. By default, the command line login does not show any stars. It's probably a security precaution, so that people cannot use the length of your password to help guess it.

Just type in your password normally, and hit enter. If you get the password wrong it will say "Login Incorrect", and you can try again.

Let me know if you actually need to reset your password.

hope this works, because you can't have any fun with debian if you are locked out.

Cheers, Jamei

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Ok I can get to everything

Submitted by Agita on Tue, 2006-10-31 14:20.

Ok I can get to everything now.

How do I get to a desktop envirnment. cmds are really tricky

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first, have you got a desktop environment installed?

Submitted by jamei on Wed, 2006-11-01 05:23.

first, have you got a desktop environment installed? If not, it's not too hard.

you will first need to decide if you want Gnome / KDE / XFCE or something else. In case you were wondering, I personally use gnome. Thanks to it's human-interface-guidelines it is very user friendly, and has great software. However, there are also many people who speak highly of KDE and XFCE. XFCE is much less bloated, so it will run well even on old hardware. (it seems that xfce takes ~62-74MB! wow. all of my gnome apps (including many optional ones) is about 400MB and KDE is 648MB!)

But enough advocacy,

ok - two thing you could do here. aptitude will let you see examine the packages you are about to install more easily. on the other hand, you need less commands for apt get.

----aptitude----
to install, run:
sudo aptitude

(if you don't have sudo set up, just use "su" to log in as root and run "aptitude". However setting up sudo is probably something you should consider soon)

in aptitude, press 'u' to update (if you're using internet repositories)

go to the tree named "tasks"
the press the "/" key to search and type in either of
"gnome-desktop-environment"
"kde"
or "xfce4"
if you dont get an exact match, keep pressing "n" until you get to one.

to select the package to be installed, press "shift +", to look at the package press enter, to close whatever you are looking at, press "q"

once you have selected the packages you would like, press "g" to install them.
phew.
---end aptitude---

---apt-get---
sudo apt-get update
then choose one of
>sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
>sudo apt-get install kde
>sudo apt-get install xfce4
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ok, now you have your desktop environment installed.
i think the next step is "startx". Is that right? - i haven't done this for a while.

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