Today was the second day of Linux courses. After finishing the installation part last week I now went on to explain parts of the Linux administration. Originally I planned to do the following today:
- Software installation
- Text environment: bash and commands
- Graphical environments (Gnome, KDE, Windowmaker to show that you can choose different window managers)
But we actually got no further then software installation. Between starting too late, some people not understanding very quickly, me not being the ultra-perfect Spanish speaker and me covering the topic extensively quite some time got lost.
And I have to grumble a bit: the Debian Backports system used to be a lot easier. It's gotten quite complex to explain with the APT pinning and preferences and all. That ate quite some time as well.
The slideshow (which will be made available at the end of the course) for today looked like this:
- Instalar software
- dpkg, rpm
- apt-get, apt-cache
- search
- show
- install
- upgrade, dist-upgrade
- sources.list
- Backports
- packages.debian.org (which unfortunately was and is down)
- Synaptic
- dpkg-reconfigure
- debfoster