My Adventure Installing Debian 4.0r5

After ditching Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)  for Debian 4.0r5 (stable), I have another story to tell.

Did I say that I need DRI? OK, I did in my comment to my recent Ubuntu 8.10 article. Well, that does work with Debian. After trying to keep my home directory, I did a clean install.

I installed Nero and Adobe Reader  using GDebi (which is contained in GNOME), and had to give up on my Fluendo codec pack and PowerDVD, because those work only on Ubuntu, and had to resort to other methods for that.

To get Flash support, I found some workaround on the Debian Wiki pages. Adobe Flash has been removed from the official distribution out of security concerns, but it can be re-added with some shell commands. Heeding the Wiki’s warning that my system would be less stable now, I ventured on.

For streaming video, I resorted to installing the VLC media player and its Mozilla plug-in.

Being satisfied, I decided to install some fonts and installed almost all “xfonts” and “ttf” packages. However, the Helvetica font did not have any umlauts and displayed them with regular letters (which is sort of confusing when reading German text). By using the tkfont program, I was able to find out that the “cronyx” font packages were responsible for that. Nice!! After removing those,the Helvetica font appeared normal again. Now, how do I make GNOME pick TTF fonts over bitmap fonts? No clue.

Configuring the printer was easy. Configuring the scanner impossible. Even when SANE has all access rights to the device, it says “invalid argument”  when opening it. So I guess I’ll be using OpenBSD for scanning.

Well, that’s  it for now.

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