Installing Debian Sarge
Friday 30th September 2005
Categories: Guides, GNU/Linux, FLOSS
What Packages?
In Debian, there are thousands of package, from Unison to Mozilla Firefox. The list that follows includes some that I have used (my personal recommendations are highlighted) - of course, I highly recommend you try different packages to see which you like. One of the key points of Debian is freedom, so you have a huge range of packages to try - you can search using apt-cache search wordstosearchfor, or on the Debian website. You can read a quick manual on each package by typing man packagename once it is installed. Good luck, and have fun!
- Web Browsers
- mozilla-firefox
- Opera (Opera provides a package*)
- Office Suite
- gnome-office
- openoffice.org
- Instant Messengers
- gaim
- kopete
- FTP software
- gftp
- Graphics
- gimp
- CD Burning
- k3b
- PDF Readers
- evince
- xpdf
- gpdf
- Text Editors
- gedit
- bluefish
- kedit
- kate
- The Rest
- linneighborhood - allows you to surf the network, and mount shares without using a terminal.
- samba - allows you to network with Windows PCs.
- swat - allows easy configuration of samba - read the manual page for the easy setup.
- cups - printing software.
- unison (and unison-gtk) - allows you to synchronise files between computers.
- apache2 - web server.
- synaptic - provides a graphical interface to apt.
- RealPlayer - based on the open source Helix, so is quite different from the Windows version.
- xscreensaver and xscreensaver-gl - screensavers: normal and OpenGL respectively (try the bouncing cows!)
*You may find some packages in the internet as a file with a .deb extension. To install the package, type dpkg -i filepath.