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From: lrhorer on 12 Jan 2010 02:22
Neil Jones wrote:

> I have installed Debian Linux for the first time on my new Eeepc
> (1005HA
> to be exact). It was not an easy install.

Why not? I've found Debian to be among the easiest of installs, as
long as the Ethernet port is recognized by the installer (even if one
employs the DVD based install, rather than a netinst version). I
heartily suggest anyone who attempts to install Debian on a machine
with a network card not recognized by the installer temporarily install
a NIC which is recognized by the installer.

> I do have the network (eth0) connection and did perform "aptitude
> update" and "aptitude upgrade". Now I want to install wicd Network
> Manager, so that I can configure the WLAN. When I execute "aptitude
> wicd" the message say nothing exists in the repository. Are there any
> other tools that I can use to configure wireless LAN?

Well, you could download a .deb file and load it manually into your apt
application (whichever one you use). If it isn't in the repository or
on your hard drive (or network), then no apt application will find it.
You could also obtain the source package and compile from source.

> Also, I want to make the install more complete (development tools, X
> applications, OpenOffice etc). Where do I start on this?

If you want to use X, then you should have selected a Desktop install
when you ran the install routine. The default display manager is
Gnome, but I prefer KDE. I find KPackage, the KDE Package manager, to
be very easy to use and very powerful. I find it much more intuitive
than Synaptic. Of course, now that you have Debin already installed,
you can get KDE by simply typing `apt-get install kde`. During
installation, under Advanced Options, one may select KDE as an
alternative to Gnome.

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