As part of my Debian lenny installs, I performed a 'clean' install, rather than an upgrade, on one of the other machines, silver. This was in order to practice the process for an upgrade of a sarge-based machine at work (upgrading to etch and then lenny seemed too much work).
I installed the "standard server" components on silver, using the
Debian lenny CD1. This provides a basic working server, including
exim4. I updated the /etc/apt/sources.lst, removing the
cdrom entries and adding the FTP repositories:
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
Note the addition of contrib and non-free, as I need packages that fall into these categories.
To implement a working X11 system (without Gnome or KDE), the following packages must be installed:
Then add in a lightweight window manager and terminal:
To configure the xorg.conf file automatically,
run (as root):
Xorg -configure
This will create a configuration file in
/root/xorg.conf.new, which must be copied to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf. I found that this configuration would
not work with the radeon driver, as the Modes line was
missing from the Screen section; the section should look
like the following:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
Other useful packages:
emacs displayed a too large font in the menu bar, which was because
the 100dpi fonts preceded the 75dpi fonts in the standard
xorg.conf file. The Files section should look
like this for a reasonable emacs menu font size:
Section "Files" RgbPath "/etc/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" # FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/artwiz-aleczapka-en-1.3:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/artwiz-aleczapka-en-1.3" FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1" EndSection
Finally, the standard xorg.conf assumed a US keyboard. For
a UK keyboard the InputDevice section should look like:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Note: the artwiz fonts are not required, just my personal preference with fluxbox.
For C and C++ development, add the following:
For X11 development, further add xorg-dev. Then, of
course, add what you want...
