Debian Linux almost everywhere
Thoughts for the week
Enjoying being back in Debian Linux world, with regolith desktop as the tiling window manager.
I have several Lenovo laptops and all but one are now upgraded to Debian Linux, using the testing version of the distribution.
The most significant difference with Debian Linux is the use of a separate root account for administration, rather than using sudo in Ubuntu Linux.
Debian Linux with Regolith Desktopλ︎
Download the ISO image from Debian.org. The default is the Net ISO which has the essential packages for Linux.
Create a bootable USB drive with the ISO image, on Linux this can be achieved by a simple copy command
/dev/sda1should be the main disk drive for the computer. Usedfcommand to check which mount points are the USB drive and computer hard drive.
Install Debian Linux from the Net ISO image by rebooting the computer. Most modern laptops have a boot selection menu that shows when pressing F12 ask the computer bios starts.
Follow the Debain Linux installer prompts. At the end, select the Debian Desktop environmet. Its also recommended to install the OpenSSH server and recommended tools (selected by default).
If the Debian Desktop task is not installed, then not enough packages are added by Regolith Desktop to run an X Window session. Also the Sway Wayland package has unmet dependencies.
Reboot the computer after the install is complete.
Login to Debian Linux and download the Regolith Desktop install script.
Regolith Desktop - single install script for Debian Linux
apt install gpg && \
wget -qO - https://regolith-desktop.org/regolith.key | \
gpg --dearmor | tee /usr/share/keyrings/regolith-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null && \
echo deb "[arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/regolith-archive-keyring.gpg] \
https://regolith-desktop.org/release-3_1-debian-bookworm-amd64 bookworm main" | \
tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/regolith.list && \
apt update && \
apt install regolith-desktop regolith-session-flashback regolith-look-gruvbox
Post installλ︎
Debian Linux installs a number of packages that I dont need, including Libre Office suite.
Thank you.
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