BigPaul2006 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 hey everyone, i'm in the process of learning about Debian and setting up a home web/mysql server. i'm at the "software selection" screen of etch, and i have desktop environment setup since i'm not so familiar with the command line stuff yet, but I'm wondering what in the world "standard system" means. does anyone know? i've googled this but have been unsuccessful. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon2611 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 hey everyone, i'm in the process of learning about Debian and setting up a home web/mysql server. i'm at the "software selection" screen of etch, and i have desktop environment setup since i'm not so familiar with the command line stuff yet, but I'm wondering what in the world "standard system" means. does anyone know? i've googled this but have been unsuccessful. thanks Basically just installs the stuff the people behind debian deem to be part of the standard system, i.e utils .etc Generally best to let those install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borbus Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 The standard system, or base system, is the most minimal fully functional installation of Debian that you can do. With just the base system you can't really do much but using apt you can install anything you need so you can actually do anything. People familiar with Debian prefer to install just a base system and then install everything else afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/...ian.html?page=3 Manual package selection This option allows you to use aptitude to manually pick from the packages Debian has available. If you don't choose anything extra from the selection menu, you get just the standard system installed. Veterans of multiple installations often find this works best for them, as they can selectively install just the software they want at a later date. The contents of the standard system include everything to get the system and its hardware running, everything you'd expect on a normal Unix system, a C programming environment, Python and Perl interpreters, and network tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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