[plug] debian install

[Brian Tombleson]

From: "Wayne Vovil" <wayne.vovil at ausi.com>
> Secondly, I would like to have Chinese Simplified environment installed as
I am studying Chinese at TAFE (Chinese 2A - Mandarin). I notice that later
in the install, it asks for your default language (English). Does this mean
that I can use this normally; but have Chinese chars in my wordprocessing
docs too!
>
> Do I need to install SAMBA Server, if I only want to acces my FAT
partition from linux, and sometimes connect to my other machines' FAT
partitions? Or is this only needed when someone else needs to access MY
linux box?

Bernard and Brad have given some advice, but I'll give mine on a bit broader
level which I had to work out when I moved to debian.

Key point to remember: apt is magic

What I do is install a basic system choosing the "simple" package selection
and only selecting the C/C++ options so I know I'll be able to easily
install tarballs if/when necessary because I'm not a C programmer and
"apt-get c" doesn't do much and searching on 'c' gives you 80% of packages.

After you login you use "apt-cache search <something>" for the packages you
think you'll want and then apt-get install those packages.

For example, you want SMB support.  apt-cache search smb returns (for my
system):

smbclient - A LanManager like simple client for Unix.
task-samba - Samba SMB server
smbfs - mount and umount commands for the smbfs (for kernels >= than 2.0.x)
smb-nat - SMB Network Analysis Tool
gnosamba - A graphical configuration utility for Samba
samba-doc - Samba documentation.
snort - flexible packet sniffer/logger that detects attacks
swat - Samba Web Administration Tool
gnomba - GNOME Samba browser
tksmb - SMB (Samba and Windows) network browser
samba - A LanManager like file and printer server for Unix.
smb2www - A Windows Network client that is accessible through a web browser.
samba-common - Samba common files used by both the server and the client.
libpam-smb - Pluggable Authentication Module allowing Samba interface
linpopup - Xwindow port of Winpopup, running over Samba

Out of this what is closest to what I want to do?  smbfs - just mount an SMB
share.

apt-get smbfs

.. it'll work out the dependancies and install them as well (samba-common
and one other from memory).

Try apt-cache search chinese and pick one or more to install.

You can do them all at once if you know what you're after.  For an internet
server-style machine you might do:
apt-get install less bind rdate traceroute telnetd dnsutils wvdial m4
procmail apache libpng2 freetype2 zlib1g

HTH.
- Brian.